Data from various sources shows that the IT failure caused by the CrowdStrike software update has affected global networks and services. Real-time maps provided by the internet monitoring company Thousand Eyes show that applications and networks in all continents have reported outages. Europe, the United States, and Australia have reported particularly high numbers of failures. Google search data can further provide insight into the severity of the problem. According to Google Trends, searches for "blue screen" and "Windows" have skyrocketed. Although today's data is still incomplete, people's interest in the term "Microsoft outage" seems to have reached an all-time high. Search trends also show a surge in people's interest in the term "CrowdStrike". East Asian and Australian users who perform related searches are particularly high, possibly due to these regions being in the same time zone as the time of the malfunction.