Gmail: Does the "G" stand for GONE?

Folks all over the United States and the world were in utter annoyance yesterday when they attempted to sign into their Google Mail accounts, Gmail, only to find out they were greeted with an error message: Unable to reach Gmail.

A similar outage took place in May, and Google users were without service for an hour. Yesterday's outage was for almost 2-hours.

I guess this leaves us all wondering if Google is that beast to protect all of one's content? Hmmmmm.