There was an extended Gmail outage on Tuesday. The outage, although over in approximately two hours, showed, in its own way, how popular the email service is, despite its current 3rd place ranking. At the peak of the outage, more than Google Trends was full of “why is Gmail down,” “Gmail down,” etc. etc. We’re talking about the top 20+ trends. People were definitely upset about the lack of connectivity, and wondering what was going on. At 12:53 PM PDT on its Google Apps status dashboard, Google said:”We’re aware