Google's search service experiences intermittent outages for about an hour after an error occurs on the afternoon of the 12th./Courtesy of Reader

Google's search service briefly malfunctioned on the afternoon of the 12th, causing intermittent access disruptions for about an hour.

According to the industry, the Google search screen in the afternoon displayed a notice that said, "An internal server error occurred while processing the request, and engineers are working to resolve the issue."

The outage occurred on both PC and mobile. From about 2:30 p.m. to about 3:30 p.m., search results intermittently failed to display properly, reports said.

The service has now been restored to normal.

Google has not yet disclosed the exact cause of the outage.

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