New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- Hours after the US government shutdown on Wednesday due to an impasse between Democrats and Republicans on federal spending, there was buzz about a closure along the US-Canada border.

Search volumes about the purported border closure spiked shortly after the shutdown, indicating concern about a potential fallout due to such a closure.

However, it seems like the concerns are unfounded as there have been no official communication about the border between the two North American nations being closed.

The concerns, and the search query, seems to stem from a different issue: not a closure, but a system outage that affected the movement of commercial trucks along the US-Canada border.

The system outage hit the Canada Bor...