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Ask HN: Is Bing running on a non-MS stack?
I'll preface this by saying that I make my living as ASP.NET programmer so I'm not trying to slight MS. I'm just curious.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com
Sample microsoft.com HTTP Response Header:
Cache-Control: public
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8Content-Encoding: gzip
Expires: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:56:47 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:24:31 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:46:47 GMT
Content-Length: 20017
Sample bing.com HTTP Response Header:
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:49:51 GMT
Content-Length: 9295
Connection: keep-alive
- trickjarrett 17y agoThere's about a 0.01% chance they would use a Linux architecture. If it came out that they didn't trust Windows to run Bing then it would be a big hit to their server market I think. I imagine it's not a standard IIS setup though, so the response header is probably unique due to this.
- kierank 17y agowww.bing.com appears to me on Akamai and they are huge linux users so in some sense Bing is not on a MS stack.
- jonursenbach 17y agoWhatever their CDN is running on is irrelevant.
- johns 17y agoFrom an MS employee: http://twitter.com/shanselman/statuses/1951354013 http://twitter.com/shanselman/statuses/1951354013
- ScottWhigham 17y ago"That's a netcraft caching/CDN bug. I've confirmed that Bing is in the MSFT Data Centers, all Windows/IIS." - that's an odd bug............
- chanux 17y agoBut the Kumo (the code name for bing) days were like this ... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10235400-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10235400-16.html?part=rss&...
- CyberFonic 17y agoMS bought Powerset in order to bring Bing to market (just like they bought QDOS to sell to IBM as MSDOS). PowerSet uses: Natural language parser from Xerox Parc http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9940887-80.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9940887-80.html Apache http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-core-user/200808.mbox/%3CC4BDF07E.5195%25michael@powerset.com%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-core-user/20... Puppet server farm admin tools http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WhosUsingPuppet http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WhosUsingPuppet Dell servers running Linux http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-September/032788.html http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-Sept... Wikipedia entry (as indexed by PowerSet) : http://www.powerset.com/explore/semhtml/Powerset_(company)?query=what+technologies+does+powerset+use http://www.powerset.com/explore/semhtml/Powerset_(company)?q... I'm sure there are more smoking guns out there. I found the above with Bing !!! (cross-checked with Google) So is SCO going to sue MS for purloining "their tech" ??? Should be enough dough to get them out of bankruptcy.