<p>It was either the pause that refreshed or a reason to tear out one's hair.</p><p>For somewhere between 10 and 90 minutes Friday, Gmail, the free, cloud-based email service from Google, went down, according to users scattered around the globe.</p><p>The temporary outage, occurring between noon and 1:30 p.m. in the Kansas City area, affected Gmail, Google+ and other services, such as Hangouts and YouTube.</p><p>One common message during the disruption said, "Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent."</p><p><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/24/4774492/gmail-outage-surprises-online.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24987323/googles-gmail-outage-leaves-many-dark">Google's Gmail outage leaves many in the dark</a> (San Jose Mercury News)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dMYWN2Ad10DRrnMONlHrAiZC-N8jM&authuser=0&ned=us">246 additional articles.</a></p>