Microsoft Bing Goes Down Due to Mistake

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]Ciuy[/nom]search google on bing and u get a BSOD .[/citation]

Nope. You get a list of Google service offerings group by category.

 

[kryten42]

I use Bing for maps. I like it better that Google's map system.

 

[shabaa]

looks like Bing and I have a thing in common, we both have a habit of offering useless messages. HaHa... don't feed the troll

 

[ekopalm]

I like to manually guess the url's to websites and if I cant find it then im just out of luck. I just don't think "finding engines" or that great!

 

[Shadow703793]

I use Bing only for it's Bing Cash Back 😉

 

[Manos]

[citation][nom]enzo matrix[/nom]Does anyone here even use bing? comment if you do.[/citation]

I do, even if I still use Google, I like seeing the progress of Bing which improves all the time in results. As a search engine's interface and usefulness is by far better than Google if you really check it out. Video and image results its amazing how it works.. I was surprised. A LOT actually. I still have to open Google often after I search with Bing if not sutisfied but its getting less and less the times I would need to Google afterwards. I hope Bing ends up getting as many results cause i love the interface and all or that Google takes Bing as example to their features and bring them to their users cause its sweet. And Google is a huge habbit which isnt easy to give up but it starts feeling like when I see Dos after all those years..

 

[scryer_360]

Bing went down? Huh. I just google. So no, I wasn't affected.

 

[JonathanDeane]

I miss using Lycos as my main search engine... back in the day it was the best. Google then was the best or still is? Bing going down right now is a non issue for more people but I have been hearing good things about Bing these days. At least they fixed it pretty fast? I know when Google last went down it took a few hours to get over the fact that all the searches for Micheal Jackson where not a denial of service attack lol

 

[thyger]

Bing has no chance. They will never out-google google. Their only hope is to buy temporary market share (with inflated Bing cashback) or to do something different and unusual to satisfy a niche crowd.

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]thyger[/nom]Bing has no chance. They will never out-google google. Their only hope is to buy temporary market share (with inflated Bing cashback) or to do something different and unusual to satisfy a niche crowd.[/citation]

Have heard that kind of talk before....
About hardware companies like IBM, Toshiba and HP
About software companies like Lotus, Oracle, Netscape and Netware
About technologies, programming languages.. name any category in IT.

There may never be a company to unseat Google, but it is not an impossibility for them to fail in spectacular fashion. From the responses it would seem that a number of folks are using a combination of the two which would lead one to believe that there are strengths and weaknesses on both sides. While welcome to your opinion, a blanket statment like yours does not a good argument make.

 

[g0rilla]

Bing?? What's that?

 

[littlec]

[citation][nom]enzo matrix[/nom]Does anyone here even use bing? comment if you do.[/citation]

Yeah I do for somethings, mostly video and sometimes searches for webpages after google gives me nothing. Most of the time its google all the way. Mostly due to habit, and sometimes (rarely) b/c I can't find it on bing. With the exception of searching for photos Bing is much better IMO.

 

[gayan]

I only used BING to get the newegg 10% Black-Friday cash back... 😀 Go Google

 

[CrashOverride90]

I would've noticed if i actually used Bing...but its Google all the way for me!

And looking that this, looks like I made a good decision not turning to Bing (despite all the hype)

 

[CrashOverride90]

I would've noticed if i actually used Bing...but its Google all the way for me!

And looking that this, looks like I made a good decision not turning to Bing (despite all the hype)

 

[cookoy]

Nope no impact on me whatsoever. Busy enjoying reading Tom's news comments.

 

[cj_online]

Bing can never compare to Google; we should always be willing for new competition, but just not in this case.

Google is a freakin symbol now, their symbolism is reflected through the addition of the word 'google' into the dictionary ...!!!!

 

[CrashOverride90]

lol Bill Gates kinda retired from Microsoft's CEO position...

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I don't use Bing so it makes no difference to me.

 

[edzz111]

ive been hearing about bing but i never quite bothered using it

 

[Guest]

Microcrap had to shut down there winblowzz PC's to re-enable the Sun unix computers so Bong .err Bang .. err yeah.. that rubish will stay up and running.

 

[eddieroolz]

Yeah I had the problem. Found out yesterday through Engadget Japanese though...Tom's is really slow these days.

 

[eddieroolz]

[citation][nom]dextermat[/nom]Bin sucks: do you need more proof than that...[/citation]

Yeah, like Google doesn't have its outages.

Quit being hypocritical, people.

 

[koga73]

lol one of the developers used the live server accidentally instead of the development server. Wonder if he's gonna be fired?

 

[yao]

competition is good. Google is growing big everyday, it could be another microsoft.