New problems for Google and its services. There are difficulties in accessing Gmail services and anomalies are also recorded for YouTube. The ‘alarms’ triggered by users converge on the downdetector.it site, which collects the reports, and are poured in particular on Twitter, where the hashtag #googledown returns to peep out after the ‘earthquake’ of two days ago, when a authentication problem paralyzed the Google universe for nearly an hour. Over 15,000 users, mostly in North America and Great Britain, have reported email problems, the company confirms.