There are also viruses that muck with your DNS that can cause this exact symptom.  That's assuming your using Windows.

 
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 From: Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com>
To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] centurylink disavows google?
 

Can you ping 8.8.8.8?
If you can ping the IP I suspect it's a DNS failure, not anything more 
than that.

On 8/29/2014 10:08 AM, gregrwm wrote:
> centurylink can't seem to find google this morning.  no trouble
> finding bing.  interesting.
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