Bing is blank?

https://www.bing.com/

by rljy • 13 years ago

117 83 13 years ago

bing.com

ggchappell• 13 years ago

HTTPS gets me a blank page. The no-S version works fine:

http://www.bing.com/

jekdoce• 13 years ago

Same here, http://www.bing.com works fine.

agumonkey• 13 years ago

Me too.

At first I thought the https dom rendering was locked, but it really is an ~empty tree (head with empty style, body).

Blahah• 13 years ago

best it's ever looked

mbesto• 13 years ago

404 apparently

  curl -I https://www.bing.com
  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

jaibot• 13 years ago

Microsoft's CEO is not going to be happy.

Raphael• 13 years ago

Good thing that they fired their CEO.

skwirl• 13 years ago

It's back now.

SchizoDuckie• 13 years ago

Not here. I like the new minimalistic design

BlackDeath3• 13 years ago

Not for me. HTTP is good, HTTPS is not.

elwell3• 13 years ago

No it's not.

BigTuna• 13 years ago

Confirmed.

caiob• 13 years ago

MS should reward you for noticing, rarely anyone actually goes onto bing.com

jaredsohn2• 13 years ago

I know your post was said in jest, but bing is ranked #22 on Alexa and #10 in the US. (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com) and gets over 17% of search marketshare.

The top sites, if people are curious: http://www.alexa.com/topsites

adrianoconnor2• 13 years ago

I think it ranks highly for the same reason that MSN.com used to rank highly (I think MSN was even the number 1 site for a time); I.E., It has nothing to do with actual hard-earned popularity, and everything to do with default settings in IE.

madsushi• 13 years ago

We found him: timthelion is the one person that actually uses Bing.

huhtenberg• 13 years ago

Psst .. DDG uses Bing. As does Facebook.

character• 13 years ago

as do Yahoo and Siri

brokenparser• 13 years ago

https://duckduckgo.com/

Problem solved.

pmelendez• 13 years ago

Doesn't ddg use bing underneath?

killertypo• 13 years ago

DDG is a meta engine, it uses a multitude of search providers.

kirkbackus• 13 years ago

https://bing.com/ works fine, but https://www.bing.com/ doesn't work.

mapleoin• 13 years ago

https://bing.com redirects to http://www.bing.com. https://www.bing.com doesn't redirect. It's just sloppy.

jevinskie• 13 years ago

Ugh, an SSL-stripping redirect? Poor form!

JimmaDaRustla2• 13 years ago

It may have to due with avoiding man-in-the-middle or redirect attack, but I am not too familiar with the logistics of redirecting from https to https.

MrZongle2• 13 years ago

Upside: renders quickly and identically in all browsers.

elwell3• 13 years ago

Actually, it doesn't 'render'. Looking in dev tools, it's a 404.

Aaronn2• 13 years ago

They forgot to make a 404 page?

kyrra• 13 years ago

You can still return any page data you'd like with a 404 status. They are returning with a Content-Length of 0, so no page is sent. So it is rendering properly, it's rendering nothing.

terabytest• 13 years ago

That's the latest redesign. Microsoft are going for an increasingly minimalistic trend.

wise_young_man• 13 years ago

They were early to the FlatUI trend. Now they are starting the ZeroUI trend.

sixothree5• 13 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937854

jon_kuperman• 13 years ago

Yep, expect 100% blank iPhone's coming in IOS 8.

Aaronn2• 13 years ago

90% blank iPhones 100% blank Zunes

elwell3• 13 years ago

Seems to be an SSL problem.

adrianoconnor2• 13 years ago

Technically, SSL is still working fine. The 404 page-not-found result is delivered over the secure channel :)

I know nothing about the Microsoft Bing servers, but my stab-in-the-dark guess would be that somebody changed something on the load-balancers that handle SSL termination, and now they're proxying to the wrong pool of back-end servers.

bparsons• 13 years ago

The bigger question here is: Why were you looking at Bing to begin with? It has probably been like this for months.

chrischen• 13 years ago

5 people couldn't do their searches today.

mef• 13 years ago

Interestingly enough, according to Alexa bing.com is #10 ranked site in the US, #22 worldwide.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com

thinkpad20• 13 years ago

bing is good for certain things, if you know what I mean >_~

guidopallemans• 13 years ago

.... video search

chestnut-tree• 13 years ago

I find their translate tool better than Google. I sometimes get a garbled English translation from Google, Bing more often returns a more comprehensible English translation. Of course, I can't vouch for how accurate the translation is.

Also, the photos they showcase everday on their site are often quite awesome or beautiful.

goatforce5• 13 years ago

I find the "Birds Eye" view in their maps service to be useful and neat.

h4pless• 13 years ago

Bing's video search with the SafeSearch turned off is probably the best porn search engine/browser on the internet. I'm guessing the OP was looking for porn. At least that's what I'm usually doing with it. Now why was he trying to access Bing via an HTTPS connection which lead him to this blank page? I'm guessing naughty porn.

tlongren• 13 years ago

As it should be.

C1D2• 13 years ago

I really like the new design, very good example of the new minimalist trend and "flat" look. It is really able to convey all the value I see in Bing in such a simple and minimalistic design.

Best move Microsoft has made since Windows XP.

sixothree5• 13 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937698

C1D2• 13 years ago

My comment was sarcastic, I know that it's just a bug.

heydenberk• 13 years ago

The flattest UI.

FrankenPC3• 13 years ago

It's modern hyper-minimalism. GENIUS!

antr• 13 years ago

Less is more? http://d.pr/i/FhLN

frankyurban• 13 years ago

HTTPS?

sixothree5• 13 years ago

How does a story like this with all of the comment circle-jerking make it to the top of hacker news? I really wish I could down vote stories.

undecisive• 13 years ago

Because everyone adores Microsoft, and is horrified and gutted that such a useful and loved addition to the internet ecosphere, backed by such an understaffed and money-starved corporation could be hindered by such a tragedy.

And because everyone is a sarcastic prick.

And on that note, does the fact that this is only occurring on HTTPS indicate that the only secure Bing is an empty Bing?

colanderman• 13 years ago

There's been a LOT of uninteresting shit on the front page the past couple days. I consider them off-topic and flag them. Stories such as:

* How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit (this has what to do with startups or technology?)

* Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner (same here)

* Amazon issues "Choking Hazard" warning for Testable JavaScript (the Daily WTF is that way →)

* this one (oh noes a 404 somewhere on teh interwebs, let's crack jokes)

all deserve flagging for being off-topic.

sixothree5• 13 years ago

But what really bugs me is that all of the top level comments should be nested under one single comment labelled "silly one liners".

patdennis• 13 years ago

I'm only getting the problem on https... http://www.bing.com/ works for me.

ScotterC• 13 years ago

I noticed this a while ago that it doesn't load with https. Can't believe they still haven't fixed that.

Geee• 13 years ago

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

alex_young• 13 years ago

Link to previous discussion on subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576041

magicseth• 13 years ago

Brought to you by the NSA

kriswill• 13 years ago

bing doesn't do SSL. Possible reasons:

1. Microsoft is cheap. SSL/TLS encryption of content requires a little more processing power. 2. The Bing API doesn't support HTTP/S. Could be a JSONP limitation. 3. Conspiracy Theory: Microsoft wants to fill up NSA's snooping storage archive, so they can sell them more Windose and SQL servers.

foolproof• 13 years ago

https://ssl.bing.com is where they host "secure" content at, apparently. [1]

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Assl.bing.com

neoterics• 13 years ago

Wow, these companies are really overdoing their minimalist design nowadays.

pvnick• 13 years ago

Someone wrote the index controller in php and deployed a syntax error

ajmurmann• 13 years ago

I would be rather surprised if MS used PHP and not ASP

ToastyMallows• 13 years ago

They actually use a LAMP stack. /s

j-rom• 13 years ago

They're taking their flat UI a little too seriously.

ferrouswheel• 13 years ago

Preparing for a white Christmas.

bluecalm• 13 years ago

It's not much of a challenge to beat Google at UI design but I am happy Bing team is constantly widening the gap.

First the reason I started using it: Google introducing ridiculously frequent captchas for VPN users.

Now there is an option to choose local/international search with one click instead of diving into constantly changing settings menu when using Google.

Also disabling adult filter without logging in is kinda handy and one would think basic privacy feature. Google is becoming more and more user hostile with every change and I like Bing more and more.

tobyjsullivan• 13 years ago

I like Google atm because it works ;)

hernan604• 13 years ago

kiko: Its a cow eating grass

kintamanimatt• 13 years ago

For posterity: http://i.imgur.com/mb3bpwJ.png

jborden13• 13 years ago

At least it'll be Internet Explorer compatible.

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