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Google and related services were inaccessible to some users Wednesday morning, causing confusion and consternation online.

Reports of outages began at 9:30 a.m. ET and spread quickly on Twitter, with users asking if the problem was affecting others as well. As of 10:35 am ET, some users were reporting that Google was backing up.

In an email to CNN, Google said it received reports of problems with Google services from users in West Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska and Georgia.

“However, the issue was quickly resolved and is now over. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our users there,” Google said in a statement.

Among the affected services were Gmail, Google Plus, Google Drive and YouTube. Google’s app status board said the issues were fixed by 10:40 a.m. ET, but not before pranksters took to Twitter.

Adam Sullivanin one of many similar comments, he tweeted: “If Google is down… How am I going to google ‘why is google down?’

“Oh dear God, it’s the end of humanity as we know it. Need to go buy some bread and milk. #googledown,” she added Rebeccah Connelly.

The outage led some users to rival the Bing search engine, while also prompting jokes on Twitter about the apocalypse.

“Looks like the Mayans were only out for 6 months…” he joked Erica Arbetter.

“I feel a great disturbance, as if millions of voices suddenly screamed in terror and were suddenly silenced. #googledown,” he added Matt Braddick.

Others were surprised that Google, an Internet foundation for many users, could be shut down.

“Google is like Walmart and Waffle House. It’s supposed to be open 24/7. #GoogleDown,” he wrote Grant McFerrin.