Google smacked by Virus??

Has Gmail been slapped by another virus?? I was just reading Internet reports they were hit last week. Now I keep getting a 502 server error. Earlier today a family member in a different time zone emailed to say "they" could not access gmail and I was replying this was strange since mine was ok. Well now it's not. Tech definitely is a trip: great when it works, "puzzling" (at best) when it doesn't, and critical to always have backup. Wish I could remember all those folks from Google whom I met at Blogher. As if they could do anything (smile)...