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Bing is blank?
- terabytest 13y agoThat's the latest redesign. Microsoft are going for an increasingly minimalistic trend.
- wise_young_man 13y agoThey were early to the FlatUI trend. Now they are starting the ZeroUI trend.
- sixothree 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937854
- jon_kuperman 13y agoYep, expect 100% blank iPhone's coming in IOS 8.
- Aaronn 13y ago90% blank iPhones 100% blank Zunes
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- kirkbackus 13y agohttps://bing.com/ https://bing.com/ works fine, but https://www.bing.com/ https://www.bing.com/ doesn't work.
- mapleoin 13y agohttps://bing.com https://bing.com redirects to http://www.bing.com http://www.bing.com. https://www.bing.com https://www.bing.com doesn't redirect. It's just sloppy.
- jevinskie 13y agoUgh, an SSL-stripping redirect? Poor form!
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoIt 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 13y agoUpside: renders quickly and identically in all browsers.
- elwell 13y agoActually, it doesn't 'render'. Looking in dev tools, it's a 404.
- Aaronn 13y agoThey forgot to make a 404 page?
- kyrra 13y agoYou 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.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoDon't most browsers present a default 404 page?
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- ggchappell 13y agoHTTPS gets me a blank page. The no-S version works fine: http://www.bing.com/ http://www.bing.com/
- Blahah 13y agobest it's ever looked
- mbesto 13y ago404 apparently curl -I https://www.bing.com HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
- jaibot 13y agoMicrosoft's CEO is not going to be happy.
- Raphael 13y agoGood thing that they fired their CEO.
- skwirl 13y agoIt's back now.
- SchizoDuckie 13y agoNot here. I like the new minimalistic design
- BlackDeath3 13y agoNot for me. HTTP is good, HTTPS is not.
- elwell 13y agoNo it's not.
- BigTuna 13y agoConfirmed.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- caiob 13y agoMS should reward you for noticing, rarely anyone actually goes onto bing.com
- jaredsohn 13y agoI 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 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 http://www.alexa.com/topsites
- adrianoconnor 13y agoI 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.
- jaredsohn 13y agoBing is also the search engine for popular sites such as Yahoo and Facebook and the default search engine for Siri.
- madsushi 13y agoWe found him: timthelion is the one person that actually uses Bing.
- huhtenberg 13y agoPsst .. DDG uses Bing. As does Facebook.
- character 13y agoas do Yahoo and Siri
- brokenparser 13y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/ Problem solved.
- pmelendez 13y agoDoesn't ddg use bing underneath?
- killertypo 13y agoDDG is a meta engine, it uses a multitude of search providers.
- mek 13y agothey should have revoked Steve Ballmer's SSH keys!
- elwell 13y agoSeems to be an SSL problem.
- adrianoconnor 13y agoTechnically, 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 13y agoThe bigger question here is: Why were you looking at Bing to begin with? It has probably been like this for months.
- chrischen 13y ago5 people couldn't do their searches today.
- mef 13y agoInterestingly enough, according to Alexa bing.com is #10 ranked site in the US, #22 worldwide. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com
- Raphmedia 13y agoRemember that it's the default page for a lot of people who don't know how to change it. The number of time I had to fix that on people's computers...
- FrankenPC 13y ago#10 in the search engine world might as well not exist.
- adamnemecek 13y agoIt's #10 of all sites, not just search engines.
- FrankenPC 13y agoOOPS! That's not a bad number at all then.
- r00fus 13y agoRecently, iOS7 shifted all Siri queries to Bing by default. Seems to work quite similarly, but I'm sure that's pushing accesses and usage quite a bit more now.
- tlongren 13y agoAs it should be.
- C1D 13y agoI 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.
- heydenberk 13y agoThe flattest UI.
- FrankenPC 13y agoIt's modern hyper-minimalism. GENIUS!
- antr 13y agoLess is more? http://d.pr/i/FhLN http://d.pr/i/FhLN
- frankyurban 13y agoHTTPS?
- sixothree 13y agoHow 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 13y agoBecause 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 13y agoThere'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.
- sixothree 13y agoBut what really bugs me is that all of the top level comments should be nested under one single comment labelled "silly one liners".
- patdennis 13y agoI'm only getting the problem on https... http://www.bing.com/ http://www.bing.com/ works for me.
- ScotterC 13y agoI noticed this a while ago that it doesn't load with https. Can't believe they still haven't fixed that.
- Geee 13y 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 13y agoLink to previous discussion on subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576041
- magicseth 13y agoBrought to you by the NSA
- kriswill 13y agobing 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 13y agohttps://ssl.bing.com https://ssl.bing.com is where they host "secure" content at, apparently. [1] [1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Assl.bing.com https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Assl.bing.com
- neoterics 13y agoWow, these companies are really overdoing their minimalist design nowadays.
- pvnick 13y agoSomeone wrote the index controller in php and deployed a syntax error
- ajmurmann 13y agoI would be rather surprised if MS used PHP and not ASP
- ToastyMallows 13y agoThey actually use a LAMP stack. /s
- j-rom 13y agoThey're taking their flat UI a little too seriously.
- ferrouswheel 13y agoPreparing for a white Christmas.
- bluecalm 13y agoIt'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 13y agoI like Google atm because it works ;)
- hernan604 13y agokiko: Its a cow eating grass
- kintamanimatt 13y agoFor posterity: http://i.imgur.com/mb3bpwJ.png http://i.imgur.com/mb3bpwJ.png
- jborden13 13y agoAt least it'll be Internet Explorer compatible.