Google is down

Not from where I'm typing

Google was down for me for about 4 minutes today. I'm in San Diego. I don't recall what time it was exactly but it was approximately 6:15ish pm Pacific Time.

It wasn't just the search engine either, the first thing that I noticed down was my work email (Google Apps based). Not only could I not reach google or any of my Google Apps email accounts, but I couldn't reach any app engine sites including (irony?) downforeveryoneorjustme.com.

Not sure what the outage was or how local it was, but I did actually see what the submitter here saw as well -- he isn't crazy. My internet connection was working fine other than the inability to reach seemingly any google powered site, traceroute to www.google.com failed though the ip resolved correctly.