When Google's Gmail service experiences problems or downtime, it doesn't take long for the word to get out. At the beginning of this month Gmail suffered wide spread outages to its web based service as engineers underestimated the affect of changes made during recent routine upgrades. Today, users have once again complained about not being able to access the service, though this problem has apparently only impacted a small number of users. You are more likely to have noticed Gmail not being able to access your contacts. Those problems have now been remedied according to Google, though it may be worth keeping an eye on the official Gmail blog to see if an explanation is posted with the details behind today's issues.