MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, you wanted Google.
The Huffington Post reports, “Later, just before service returned around 10:15 ET, another message appeared, ‘Pardon the interruption,’ [and asked users to enter a CAPTCHA].”
“Twitter users naturally went to town… ‘Scobleizer: Wow, @bing has been down for at least seven minutes. Has that EVER happened to @google? How embarrassing,'” The Huffington Post reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Newsflash: Microsoft sucks. We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming, already in progress, “Microsoft Sucks,” starring Ballmer T. Clown.
MacDailyNews Note: According to Net Applications, which measures search engine usage (along with operating systems and browsers, among others things) across their network of 40,000 sites worldwide, in November 2009 Bing held 3.26% of the search engine market, trailing Baidu at 3.28%, Yahoo’s 6.22%, and Google’s 84.91%.
I like the “Ballmer T Clown” moniker
Doesn’t Microsoft know “Redundancy”, “Cluster”, “RAID 5”, etc (well, I guess “ETC” is well know by them). Why they don’t have a back up servers? redundant sites, clusters? or they have it but don’t know how to use it?
Maybe they reused the SideKick servers… Hope they have a backup this time…
On a related note:
A huge order of new chairs was placed by Microsoft today to replace an unexpectedly large number of broken units all within the last 24 hours. This kind of simultaneous chair failure has been seen before on the Microsoft campus notably after the failure to consumate the Yahoo deal, and after the first sales reports on Windows Vista.
Microstool strikes again
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I was watching an CNBC special on Google. They mentioned Bing as a serious competitor, so I Googled it and tried Bing with the above mentioned results.
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say that it had to be a Google plot. The truth is probably just bad luck for Microsoft.
But then again, the timing is outage was perfectly timed.
And some people think Google and Apple are enemies? Looks at the big picture people.**
** Using Google Image Search on my 24″ LED Cinema Display
So this outage effected what….3 people worldwide?
Actually I’ve given up on Google. They are much more of a threat than Microsoft. Google is actually a very intelligent and competent company compared to Microsoft. Google seems to want to stick it’s tentacles in everything – scanning literature, laptops, phones, browsers, web applications, maps, video, etc. It’s appetite for information knows no bounds. To use a “free” app, all you have to do is surrender control of your information (and some personal information) so that Google will allow you access to your own information. It’s my belief that too many people are surrendering too much information to Google.
Now Google’s motives may be “pure” right now, they could change. Yes while there are other companies out there who also collect and are interested in collecting more information about you, none of them have had the success that Google has.
Hey Zune Tang – I’m with you on this one buddy! I get it. Give Bing! (or Yahoo! or Ask.com, etc.) a chance and drop Google.
The good thing is that nobody even noticed.
I do believe this one hour outage makes it MicroSoft’s most reliable product offering.
See? I told ya. It shouldn’t be called “Bing”, it should be called DUNG!
BING goes down for an hour. I guess Ballmer needs his favors.
They must have just switched over to “7.”
Interesting – the presence of a CAPTCHA on the resurrected page, and its accompanying text (“Typing the characters in the picture above helps us ensure that a person, not a program, is performing a search.”), would seem to indicate that Bing was under some kind of automated attack.
I’m the last person you’ll find defending Microsoft, but… is it possible Bing got DDOS’d? Or is Microsoft just trying to save face by making it appear that way?
What is this “bing?”
If not Google, then Yahoo… but never Bing. Bing is for bozo’s.
“Ballmer T Clown” is an OK name, but he’ll forever be “Monkey Boy Ballmer” in my heart. Nobody can Monkey dance better.
Speaking of Google. If you Google just “Monkey Boy,” Ballmer is the first 2 hits.
Just in case you need to feel the love for that company again:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1274983729713522403#
BING = But It’s No Good
Is Bing Bung?
It’s just that unreliability factor of Windows Server/IIS combo, which cannot beat Google’s Linux/Apache combo!
Google rules, Bing drools!
Like the folks on here who keep complaining about ATT. “Just put up tens of thousands of new cell towers. And do it this week.” Now it can be “MS just build two enormous backkup facilities and do it this week. Stop advertising and put your money to building……..” There I have said it for you. Instant gratification. We are two year olds.
Bing down for an hour.
That’s what happens when you eat your own dog food.
Yet another reason Microcrap sucks balls. As you can see over these years, Microcrap is nothing I mean nothing besides a bunch of photocopiers, Oh yeah did I mention that Mac OS 10.7 is just around the corner? I bet it will have features that will blow your minds off. Don’t hesitate to copy Microcrap.
In the end, the loser is always Microcrap no matter what. Think of a time that Microcrap did something good for the world? Comment me back if you think of one.
Mac OS X: The world’s most advanced operating system, no questions asked.
MDN uses The Huffington Post for tech news? Hopefully the Star and National Inquirer are not being overlooked.
@Lurker_PC – “Actually I’ve given up on Google and Google’s motives may be “pure” right now, they could change.”
Then you really should give up using electricity, ’cause that might be used for evil too.
With Microsoft you know it was used for evil, is used for evil, and
will be used for evil…