Google has confirmed the reports of YouTube’s outage for about two hours on Thursday morning, 7:05 a. m. Eastern time, even though the company refrained from offering an explanation about the technical issue that brought the site down.

Even YouTube – which has surprisingly not updated its status blog since December 14 – did not post any message on its status blog to explain the reason behind the Thursday outage.

Nonetheless, similar to the error YouTube displayed during the recent March 2 outage, the site yet again greeted the users with the same error message: “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.”

Going by Mashable and Twitter reports, while videos embedded in the YouTube site failed to play during the last outage, the embedded videos supposedly played this time round. By heading directly to the dedicated video URLs, visitors to the site could watch the embedded videos on the site, without any hindrance.

Meanwhile, after about two hours’ downtime, YouTube was back; and a Google representative said in an email: “YouTube is up again following a technical issue which has now been resolved. We know how important YouTube is for people and apologize for any inconvenience the downtime may have caused.”