Google is down...

It is strange how used I been to a specific service, Gmail stopped working and my first thought was to check Google reader if anyone else had reported the same problem. How do I find my information if I not going to use Google services? Searching? Well there are other alternatives than Google but it feels strange. I managed to find an URL from the back of my head and got some more information about the outage:


http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/systemwide-gmail-outage/

Guess this is a warning for depending to much on a single service provider... (including this blog) Maybe I should continue updating my DNS book with important IP addresses if another well used service goes down...