(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc's&nbsp;Google&nbsp;said&nbsp;services&nbsp;were&nbsp;back&nbsp;up&nbsp;for&nbsp;users in the U.S. after a brief outage late on Tuesday, according to a company spokesperson.
"There was a very brief issue affecting the availability of results for some searches, limited to the Americas region, and it was quickly addressed," the spokesperson said in an email, without disclosing further details on the outage.
At the peak of the outage more than 22,000&nbsp;users were impacted, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status&nbsp;reports from a number of sources including&nbsp;user-submitted errors on its platform.
About 87% of impacted&nbsp;users had reported issues with&nbsp;Google&nbsp;Search, Downdetector data showed.&nbsp;
As of 10:21 pm ET (02:21 GMT), the number of outage reports dropped to 324.
(Reporting by Urvi Dugar And Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu and Rashmi Aich)

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