It’s 8:48 AM Eastern time 5/18/09 and the Google News servers are having a Monday morning. 503 errors abound. This is hot on the heels of the latest major Google outage on Thursday 5/14/09 where Google blamed network routing issues.

Update #1. It’s now 9:25am and the servers are still down. If the world’s largest Internet company can’t stay up with all their billions, what hope is there for us?

Update #2. 10am ET, Google News is back up. Here’s a first report from PC Magazine.