Bing Down for 45 Minutes
Microsoft’s Bing search engine suffered downtime on Thursday evening.
Visitors to Bing.com were getting a error message when they tried to access the search page. Service was down for at least 45 minutes before being restored around 7:10 p.m. PST.
Microsoft acknowledged the issues it on its Twitter feed and said it was looking into the matter but offered no explanation.
A Microsoft representative did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.
The outage comes after a big week in which Microsoft announced new search abilities for Bing as well as improved mapping.
