YouTube disappears from the web

Video-sharing website went offline with all pages on the site bearing a message saying that the site was unavailable. The website is back in action

Popular video-sharing website YouTube had temporarily disappeared from the web in the same week as the site's owner Google stopped censoring its Chinese search service and suffered a bug that changed a corporate information page into several different languages.

Fortunately, videos could still be played on sites where they were embedded. If you happened to reach out for the video URLs directly you could watch them without a hitch.

In fact, YouTube's disappearance from web world generated a Twitter trend under 'Service Unavailable'.

Many pages on the site bear the message "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" and embedded videos on some sites hosted on YouTube could not be played.
Other error messages included: "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."
The outage comes in the same week that Google angered the Chinese government by stopping its censored search service in the country.

There is no reference to it on the YouTube Status blog as yet though Google has released an official statement. "We apologize for the inconvenience, but YouTube is temporarily unavailable. Our engineers are currently working to restore the site," a Google spokesman said.