There might be connectivity issues between internet providers — SBC and Cogent seem to be at critical levels regarding network availability during the last four hours, according to the Internet Health Report.

http://www.internetpulse.net/Main.aspx?Period=RH4

I didn’t notice that Google was out of commission. I don’t think a PageRank update would have anything to do with Google not working, but one can never tell.

As far as Blogger not working, when I was using it as my blogging platform, it always seemed to have service outages of some sort.