Microsoft Bing Suffers Outage
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, suffers an outage today with users getting a browser error message rather than a search bar. The search service was down for at least 45 minutes before being restored around 7:10 p.m. PST.
Here is what Microsoft said:
The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences.
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 users were unable to use bing.com.
We strive to maintain a high standard of operational excellence at Bing. We are running a post mortem to find out how our software and processes need to be improved to prevent anything like this from happening again.
Bing Getting Cosy With Wolfram Alpha
Microsoft is adding some enhancements to its Bing search engine, including some that rely on computational information delivered by Wolfram Alpha. Microsoft is also adding MSN Videos, map enhancements, Hover preview functionality, weather results to Bing.
Wolfram Alpha computational search engine make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. Wolfram Alpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains.
Google find things from searching existing data on the internet while Wolfram Alpha do so by doing new computations from its own internal knowledge base.
Google And Bing Searches Getting Social
Microsoft has made a deal to have Facebook and Twitter to deliver real-time search results through the Bing search engine. The Bing Beta Twitter search can be found here.
While Google has reached an agreement with Twitter to include updates in search results. No news about Facebook being searched on Google yet. But we are guessing that is coming soon too.
From Google Blog: Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months.
Microsoft Adds Visual Search To Bing
Microsoft adds an enhancement to Bing that allows users to search items by viewing images instead of sifting through pages of text-based Internet links.
From Microsoft Blog: Visual Search is a new way to formulate and refine your search queries through imagery, particularly for sets of results that tend to be more structured. We call these data groupings galleries.
Microsoft Bing Is Now Live
Microsoft is going to show off Bing, a new version of its Internet search engine (previously Kumo) publicly for the first time on June 3. But it came earlier, the Bing website is now live. Check it out.
Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Live Search to Kumo in early 2009. But now Microsoft have changed the name to Bing. It will use semantic search technology from Powerset which Microsoft have acquired to display refined searches. Microsoft is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing.
Microsoft has recently announced Windows Live with its “next generation unified experience” features by adding a set of new social networking tools and services to its cloud-based software suite.
Checkout Wired review of Bing: There’s a glimmer of something better than a search engine here — call it an information portal. Bing’s not there yet, but it is pointing the way.
Microsoft Bing Ad
Have a look at Microsoft next search engine, Bing, advertising. Microsoft is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing. The new search engine will be released on June 3.
Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Live Search to Kumo early 2009. But now Microsoft have changed the name to Bing. It will use semantic search technology from Powerset which Microsoft have acquired to display refined searches.
Microsoft Bing Will Arrive On June 3
Microsoft is going to show off Bing, a new version of its Internet search engine (previously Kumo) publicly for the first time on June 3.
Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Live Search to Kumo early 2009. But now Microsoft have changed the name to Bing. It will use semantic search technology from Powerset which Microsoft have acquired to display refined searches. Microsoft is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing.
Microsoft has recently announced Windows Live with its “next generation unified experience” features by adding a set of new social networking tools and services to its cloud-based software suite.
Checkout Wired review of Bing: There’s a glimmer of something better than a search engine here — call it an information portal. Bing’s not there yet, but it is pointing the way.
Microsoft Renamed Kumo Search To Bing
Microsoft is going to show off a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week.
Microsoft will rebrand and relaunch its Windows Live Search to Kumo early 2009. But now Microsoft have changed the name to Bing. Now that is a stupid name and stupid move to brand a search engine. Microsoft is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing.
Microsoft has recently announced Windows Live with its “next generation unified experience” features by adding a set of new social networking tools and services to its cloud-based software suite.
