We're all only human -- born to make mistakes. Yes, that applies to even Google.

Some Web users this morning experienced a momentary outage that reminded many of yesterday's widespread outages at the online giant. This time, it's Google News that's appearing flaky -- generating 503 Server Errors when users attempt to visit the site.

Now, a little downtime here and there is (much to everyone's chagrin, especially an idealist like myself) an unavoidable fact of Internet life. And yet, Google's become so fundamental to how we live and work that we really don't cut it much of a break, do we?

So with Google having a not-so-hot Thursday, the prospect of a second day of slowness and downtime didn't exactly thrill many. Here's a smattering of the latest outcry on Twitter, which -- aside from its own persistent tendency toward unexpected outages -- is a good barometer for how some of the most Net-savvy among us are feeling. Or at least, the most vocal.

"getting server errors again going to @google news," Trellix wrote. "Thought this was fixed yesterday. #googlefail"

"Server error when I tried to log on to Google News. Trust in Google: down #googlefail" bwaber said.

"why is google news down...again!!!" damn2good wrote.

"ugh! why is Google News not working again!!!" matthewbhanson said.

"Is anyone else having trouble accessing google news?" jcsmith wrote.

"... ya, man. like, the whole world," joshgeek responded.

And so on. While we might be witnessing the failure of one of the most popular online services in the world, at least we've got Twitter on which to complain about it. And thank goodness for that, eh?

UPDATE: It's back now. #googlefail's over. Stand down, Netizens! Belay that freakout. Stow that outrage. And the rest of us: Just relax.

(Oh, well, that actually doesn't apply to users of Google Apps for business. You guys have the right to freak out as much as you want, as often as you want, because you're the only ones actually getting hurt during episodes like this.)

UPDATE 2: Well, that shows me. Google repaid my earlier, semi-defense of its occasional interruptions (above) with an annoying failure on Google Sites that wiped out a whole slew of updates I'd made, offering only "Unable to save the page at this time, please try again later" by way of explanation and apology. Sigh.