Bing just crashed

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/03/bing-is-down/

by aresant • 17 years ago

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blahedo• 17 years ago

Back after 30 minutes of downtime.

epi0Bauqu• 17 years ago

It required me to fill out a captcha before reentry.

aresant• 17 years ago

I kid you not, the bing background right now that loaded for me is a Whale Shark LOL!

ronnier• 17 years ago

Looks like it is from this: http://vimeo.com/hd#5606758

ramanujan• 17 years ago

Anyone want to estimate how much money they just lost?

Excluding the negative press, let's upper bound what it means to lose 1/48 (= 30 minutes) of one day's revenue. Google's yearly revenue is dominated by search + Adsense. That was about $5.5 billion in Q2 2009 (from Googling "Google revenue") so about $22 billion over all.

Dividing through gives:

(22 * (10^9) dollars) / (365 days * 48 (half hours)/day) = 1 255 707.76 dollars / (half hour)

Hence an upper bound is that Bing lost about $1.3 million dollars for this downtime.

Bing is not doing as much business as Google, that Google number includes all kinds of other things besides search, and it was after 5pm US time (all of which will adjust the number down). Still, an expensive error, and this of course doesn't factor in the negative press.

brown9-2• 17 years ago

You really need to be able to estimate the lower bound of the loss to know if it was in fact "expensive" though, don't you?

gojomo• 17 years ago

Given Bing cashback, might they be net saving moeny while down?

bumblebird3• 17 years ago

>> Bing is not doing as much business as Google

Understatement of the century.

callahad• 17 years ago

That's one way to drive traffic to Bing...

metra• 17 years ago

Give them a pass because they are new. And search going down is less important than email going down.

Email has no replacement. Search does.

pohl• 17 years ago

Do they really qualify as being "new" every time they rebrand MSN Search? That seems overly generous to me. Google rolls out updates all the time too; they just got the branding right the first time.

theli0nheart2• 17 years ago

Great minds think alike ;)

bumblebird3• 17 years ago

I'm sick of the radio ads already.

"Bing! The NEW search engine". Not a mention that it's a rebrand of a crappy microsoft search.

theli0nheart2• 17 years ago

Actually, Bing is mostly a rebranding of Live Search, which has been around for a long time.

noonespecial• 17 years ago

I hope they get it worked out. For me, bing feels like the little rubber life-raft on the good ship Google. I don't want to use it, but I like knowing its there... just in case.

huntse• 17 years ago

I'm surprised anyone noticed.

bumblebird3• 17 years ago

It's quite funny. Search for bing on bing, and you can see how ridiculously incompetent they are:

"Bing - Search. Explore. Decide. ... Pardon the interruption. We ask that you view the characters in the following picture and enter them in the box below. www.bing.com · Cached page"

That's not a good summary.

Search for 'google' on google:

"Google - Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages"

edit: Do you seriously think the above summary of bing, by bing is good?

Bing just crashed

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