Bing Goes Down for 30 Minutes, Internet Users Freak Out
Bing Goes Down for 30 Minutes, Internet Users Freak Out
Posted 12/04/2009 at 6:41am
| by Paul Lilly
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Microsoft's revamped and rebranded search decision engine has been doing so well that you hate to see something like this happen. But in the evening hours last night, Bing fell flat on its face for about 30 minutes, during which time users were either unable to get to the site, or received incomplete results pages to queries.
"The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences," Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President, Online Service Division, wrote on the official Bing Team blog. "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 uses were unable to use bing.com."
Nadella went on to say that they're running a post mortem to find out what improvements need to be made to their software and processes so this doesn't happen again.
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knexkid
December 04, 2009 at 9:37am
Can you imagine the insanity that would occur if google went down for 30 minutes? I honestly think the world would tempoarily stop revolving around the sun or something!
Caboose
December 04, 2009 at 10:09am
Can you imagine if all the porn sites went down for 30 minutes? Productivity would sky rocket!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Caboose
December 04, 2009 at 8:11am
Bing doesn't go the internet
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
DogPatch1149
December 04, 2009 at 8:10am
*yawns and stretches*
Bing went down? Oh. I thought it was something serious.
*falls asleep again*
Vegan
December 04, 2009 at 7:17am
I find it very hard to believe that anyone freaked out over Bing being down.
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