Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down
techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/google-app-engine-goes-down-and-stays-down
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Google App Engine, which launched in April to compete with Amazons web services unit, has been having major problems over the last day. Currently, the application directory and, more importantly, all third party applications (heres our test application), are offline. Developers cannot even log in to the management console.