Bing is Offline

[rustybrick]

I think for the first time in Bing's short history, Bing is currently offline and down.

[Leosghost]

not from here

[bill]

I've been using it all morning here in Japan. It's been working fine for me the whole time, and I'm using it a lot more than usual [webmasterworld.com].

[Robert Charlton]

Also see, in the Supporters area...

Wow - What happened to Bing today?
Too many cash back shoppers brought it to its knees?
[webmasterworld.com...]

[rustybrick]

[bing.com...]

[bhonda]

The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences.

I really appreciate Microsoft admitting this. I'm glad that I'm not the only one that has the occasional screw-up that everyone else notices!

[engine]

I expect someone got a BIG slap for that. I'm amazed that they don't have a way of testing it before going live.

Don't you wonder what that cost them in lost revenue?

[Leosghost]

I expect someone got a BIG slap for that.

nah ..probably hit by a flying chair :)

[Philosopher]

I'm sure they have lot's of internal testing, but, speaking from personal experience, no amount of testing ever accounts for everything.

The intricacies and inter-dependencies that must be within their systems makes my head ache thinking about it.