What breaks when Google goes down?

Google is an upstream dependency for 13 AI tools we track. When it has an outage, these can degrade or fail — and 1 have no fallback at all.

Blast radius
13
tools affected · 1 with no fallback
Google status now
Operational
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Tools that depend on Google

Ranked by how hard they break. Every relationship is sourced — click a badge to verify.

What to use instead right now

Operational tools that don't depend on Google (so a Googleoutage won't take them with it):

ClaudeGrokCursorBoltPerplexityWWindsurfLLovableGGitHub CopilotPPoeMidjourneyElevenLabsRunway

Dependencies are curated and sourced (evidence shown per row). Impact and "no fallback" reflect public model/provider documentation, not a confirmed real-time outage of each product. AIDownCheck is independent and not affiliated with Google. See the full Google dependency profile →