In the email business, speed is extremely important. Unfortunately for Google and their Gmail users, speed was way behind today for half of their users.
A bug bit Gmail on Monday and almost half of the webmail service’s users are experiencing email delivery delays and problems downloading attachments.
Google first acknowledged the problem shortly before 10:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time and has been wrestling with it ever since, according to information on the Google Apps Status page.