[UPDATE 4:33 p.m.: Working Again] Google Maps Server Is Down

Screenshot of Outage Report for Google Maps taken at 4:03 p.m.

Multiple people are reporting an error when attempting to reach Google Maps. When trying to access, people across the globe are reporting seeing the following message:

According to WestHost, “The 500 Internal Server Error is a very general HTTP status code that means something has gone wrong on the web site’s server but the server could not be more specific on what the exact problem is.”

The first reports began coming in about 3:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. By 4:06 p.m., there had been almost 500 reports of issues on Outage Report.

The company has not yet addressed the issue.

UPDATE 4:15 p.m.: Though Google Maps still doesn’t work on either Chrome or Firefox browsers, it does work on a phone.

UPDATE 4:33 p.m.: Google Maps is back working again.