MSN Search Down

[arpurtech]

[search.msn.com...] gives

"This service is currently unavailable

Our team is working to restore service as quickly as possible.
Please try your request again later.
"

KK

[ryan26]

Seems to have been down since approx. 11:45AM eastern, which would be about an hour at this point.

[textex]

Maybe they are getting to roll out something new!

[engine]

Ouch, that must be hurting.
Same result with [search.msn.co.uk...] or with the search box on the portals.

[surftrack]

this sucks big you know what's

[Nikke]

It seems to be down globally.

Somebody's going to be in trouble...

[rockfen]

A friend at Microsoft says his mail is down too.

[Nikke]

Now search.msn.se is up, but still not search.msn.com.

[surftrack]

wow..

somebody is not just in trouble.

somebody is getting fired.

[Junanagoh]

Yah I just tried to see if I am still doing okay with my keywords (I had a huge loss of trafic yesterday and since MSN is really the only engine that I rank great on I wanted to see whats up.....)

[trinorthlighting]

Yep, its still down.... live.com is working though....

[southernmost]

It's back up now.

[gerbill]

don't be so sure

[textex]

Its back up.

[arpurtech]

Again down in UK.

[bobothecat]

Search is up in Virginia ... you might want to hit 'refresh' to see if that makes any difference.

I'm also seeing MSN referrals coming through once again. :)

[twebdonny]

Results are live again in South America

[crobb305]

Maybe all the subdomain spam caused the MSN servers to crash.

[Nabeel]

Maybe all the subdomain spam caused the MSN servers to crash.

LOL

[DaveAtIFG]

Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours Thursday morning, and the company couldn't immediately say what caused the problem.

[seattlepi.nwsource.com...]

[daneosporin]

msn.com is down for me, not just msn search. How expensive must this be for Microsoft?

[angiolo]

Here ( Italy ), IT WORKS!

[larryhatch]

Its up from California. -LH

[engine]

According to MSN, the reason for the outage is still being investigated. They have disabled the speller function while they troubleshoot it.