Very high (and increasing) hourly packet loss on some of the backbones. They are probably fully down and the percentage is increasing as the rolling hourly window includes more of the outage.

   NTT <-> Verizon (9.09% @ 10:20)
   SBC <-> Level3  (8.33% @ 10:20)
   ATT <-> Verizon (4.00% @ 10:20)

[ http://internetpulse.net/Main.aspx?Metric=PL ]

EDIT: Smile! You're on CNN! http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/10/tech/web/google-down/