Bing not banned in China

Stefan Mileschin · 28th January 2019, 14:58

Technical issues

It turns out that reports last week that Bing was blocked by the Chinese censors might have been untrue and that last week's outage was caused by a good old fashioned server outage.

Stories started to circulate when a Microsoft person said the site appeared to have been blocked in a manner similar to sites blocked by the government.

But the company had received no prior notice from authorities, and the disruption was not intentional on the part of the government, added the person, who declined to be identified, citing the sensitivity of the matter.

Starting from Thursday, Internet users in China attempting to access cn.bing.com, the search engine’s domestic URL, found themselves directed to an error page.

Attempts to log on to Facebook, Google search, or other sites blocked by China’s Great Firewall, encountered the same fate. Service had resumed by late on Friday.

https://fudzilla.com/news/48026-bing...anned-in-china

28th January 2019, 14:58	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,802	Bing not banned in China Technical issues It turns out that reports last week that Bing was blocked by the Chinese censors might have been untrue and that last week's outage was caused by a good old fashioned server outage. Stories started to circulate when a Microsoft person said the site appeared to have been blocked in a manner similar to sites blocked by the government. But the company had received no prior notice from authorities, and the disruption was not intentional on the part of the government, added the person, who declined to be identified, citing the sensitivity of the matter. Starting from Thursday, Internet users in China attempting to access cn.bing.com, the search engine’s domestic URL, found themselves directed to an error page. Attempts to log on to Facebook, Google search, or other sites blocked by China’s Great Firewall, encountered the same fate. Service had resumed by late on Friday. https://fudzilla.com/news/48026-bing...anned-in-china

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