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Bing is Offline
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joined:June 12, 2003
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I think for the first time in Bing's short history, Bing is currently offline and down.
Senior Member from FR
joined:Feb 15, 2004
posts:6717
votes: 230
not from here
Administrator from JP
joined:Oct 12, 2000
posts:15075
votes: 142
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].
Also see, in the Supporters area...
Wow - What happened to Bing today?
Too many cash back shoppers brought it to its knees?
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joined:June 29, 2005
posts:216
votes: 0
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!
Administrator from GB
joined:May 9, 2000
posts:25199
votes: 685
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?
Senior Member from FR
joined:Feb 15, 2004
posts:6717
votes: 230
I expect someone got a BIG slap for that.
nah ..probably hit by a flying chair :)
Senior Member from US
joined:Aug 28, 2002
posts:994
votes: 2
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.
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