Google Facing Y2K7 Problem

Two Google services have broken in the new year, most likely due to code that failed when the clock struck 2007.
Ionut Alex notes that the Gmail storage counter, which usually adds a third of a megabyte of storage to your inbox every day, stopped incrementing at midnight this morning. Gmail remains frozen at 2800 gigabytes of storage, which is plenty, and a reasonable enough number that it may even be by design. I’m guessing Google will either fix it and say nothing, or freeze the counter and declare 2.8 GB to be the new Gmail storage limit (so much for Infinity + 1).
Also, Google’s calculator is broken. That is unequivocally accurate. I can’t find a single search that normally used the calculator that now works. Try 1+1, 2+2, 4 * 2 or 15/3. Currency conversions still work, which is odd, because I thought they […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg