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Bing just crashed

21 points by aresant 17y ago

blahedo 17y ago
Back after 30 minutes of downtime.
- epi0Bauqu 17y ago
  It required me to fill out a captcha before reentry.
aresant 17y ago
I kid you not, the bing background right now that loaded for me is a Whale Shark LOL!
- ronnier 17y ago
  Looks like it is from this: http://vimeo.com/hd#5606758 http://vimeo.com/hd#5606758
ramanujan 17y 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.
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- brown9-2 17y 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?
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- gojomo 17y ago
  Given Bing cashback, might they be net saving moeny while down?
- bumblebird 17y ago
  >> Bing is not doing as much business as Google Understatement of the century.
callahad 17y ago
That's one way to drive traffic to Bing...
metra 17y 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 17y 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.
  - theli0nheart 17y ago
    Great minds think alike ;)
  - bumblebird 17y 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.
- theli0nheart 17y ago
  Actually, Bing is mostly a rebranding of Live Search, which has been around for a long time.
noonespecial 17y 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 17y ago
I'm surprised anyone noticed.
bumblebird 17y 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

21 points by aresant 17y ago

blahedo 17y ago

Back after 30 minutes of downtime.

epi0Bauqu 17y ago
It required me to fill out a captcha before reentry.

aresant 17y ago

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

ronnier 17y ago
Looks like it is from this: http://vimeo.com/hd#5606758 http://vimeo.com/hd#5606758

ramanujan 17y 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.

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brown9-2 17y 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?
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gojomo 17y ago
Given Bing cashback, might they be net saving moeny while down?
bumblebird 17y ago
>> Bing is not doing as much business as Google Understatement of the century.

callahad 17y ago

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

metra 17y 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 17y 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.
- theli0nheart 17y ago
  Great minds think alike ;)
- bumblebird 17y 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.
theli0nheart 17y ago
Actually, Bing is mostly a rebranding of Live Search, which has been around for a long time.

noonespecial 17y 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 17y ago

I'm surprised anyone noticed.

bumblebird 17y 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?