Microsoft Bing Goes Down Due to Mistake
Microsoft yesterday acknowledged a service disruption affecting its Bing search engine with a series of tweets from its official Bing twitter account. "We're aware and looking into it...stay tuned," was the first message from Redmond confirming that all was not right in Bingland. Shortly after, a second message relayed that everything was back to normal. A third message promised details once Microsoft had figured out what had gone wrong.
In a blog post Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President for Online Services, explained what had happened. Nadella detailed that the cause of the outage was "a configuration change during some internet testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences." Check out the full post below.
"The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences.
As soon as the issue was detected, the change was rolled back, which caused the site to return to normal behavior. Unfortunately the detection and rollback took about half an hour, and during that time users were unable to use bing.com.
We strive to maintain a high standard of operational excellence at Bing. We are running a post mortem to find out how our software and processes need to be improved to prevent anything like this from happening again."
CNet reports it was "at least 45 minutes." Did you have any problems with Bing last night? Let us know in the comments below!
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You think other search engines, including Google, are not directing your searches to their own advantages? LOL!!!
I use both Google and Bing. Google seems better for highly generalized searches, but I get much better results from Bing on technology related searches. YMMV.
Actually, their last major outage was May of this year.
You think other search engines, including Google, are not directing your searches to their own advantages? LOL!!!
I use both Google and Bing. Google seems better for highly generalized searches, but I get much better results from Bing on technology related searches. YMMV.
I don't like Bing search engine. Google presents better results?
I still didn't see here a post like the usual: "Man, i use Bing all the way. Forget Google: Bing rocks. It's the best! A shame Apple don't have its own expensive and payed search engine. All my 20 computers at home that already have Windows 7 and IE8 only use Bing." ... :-(
Bing has only a better presentation, more in line with Windows 7 looking.
I think people sometimes should forget brands and use whats the best for the result they need.
Its good that both have something better than the other that way keeps the competition, and as result we, the ones that can take advantage of whats best forgetting brands, get better products.
Seriously though: Who cares....? You'll find what you're looking for with either engine. They are both good search engines, I just wanted something new..I'm tired of the way Google looks.
That being said, this speaks volumes of the general Q&A and roll-out procedures at MS that they actually took down their own site...
Pretty much tell everything...