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YouTube Down, Wikipedia Hit Yesterday

(Update 2) Two sites that land at the top of almost every music searches have been hit hard within the last 24 hours. As of 8:26 AM EDT Thursday, YouTube.com. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/03/youtube-down-wikipedia-hit-yesterday.html]

image from www.broadband-finder.co.uk (Update 2) Two sites that land at the top of almost every music searches have been hit hard within the last 24 hours.

As of 8:26 AM EDT Thursday, YouTube.com returned the error message: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. The problems had begun a couple of hours earlier, but YouTube videos embedded on other sites including Hypebot were still playable according to a quick survey.

UPDATE: YouTube is back up.  Downtown was about 2+ hours.

Yesterday, Wikipedia was down for several hours delivering a DNS error. The reasons behind each site are unclear. Stay tuned for updates…