Not really since now it's up, and the status page still says it's down.
right after I shamed them on twitter. I take responsibility despite it unlikely having any impact.
Especially one that breaks the back button.
Customer confidence. Same as how everyone reports they have 99.99% uptime.
Then their status page is not unlike like target reporting in the USSR: completely fictional.
From personal experience and other Ops peoples stories, I'd assume that could be the case for many status pages ;)
It's red already.
No -- it needs to be red when it's having the outage for people to have confidence in it as an indicator. The reality is Google have no real incentive to provide an actual external status page that is accurate -- to do so is an admission of not upholding SLAs. These status pages are updated retrospectively. Use a third party one like DownDetector.