Yahoo and Bing Searches Down

Microsoft’s search engine Bing.com and other sites, including live.com, suffered a brief outage of somewhere around 20 minutes today, give or take, according to reports on Twitter and other website-monitoring services. While Bing.com and others have since returned (in fact, while we were reaching out for comment on the outage), we noticed also that Yahoo’s search service (powered by Bing) at search.yahoo.com is currently down,as well. We’re reaching out to see if there’s any explanation being provided for the outages.
When you perform a web search from Yahoo.com, you’re redirected to search.yahoo.com, and this has only been returning a blank page or, more recently, an error message, instead of search results.

In Bing’s case, the site was not resolving at all, though some report seeing the default IIS homepage instead. The website-monitoring service IsItDownRightNow also confirmed that the site was offline for a brief period today:



Some reported that other Microsoft domains, including portal.office.com, outlook.com and hotmail, were difficult to reach, too, but we could not confirm this directly. These sites appear functional now, and in some cases, the website-monitoring service showed no disruptions or didn’t have data on the referenced domains. However, it does appear that Live.com did experience a brief outage around the same time that Bing.com was down (and Hotmail redirects to Live.com):

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