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Microsoft is investigating why Bing is down in China


Bing is down in China, several users have reported, stoking fear that Microsoft’s search engine might be the latest service to get blocked by the local government’s Great Firewall. Microsoft says it is investigating the matter.

“We’re aware of reports that Bing may be inaccessible to some customers in China and are investigating,” a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat. Reports from local users about their inability to access Bing started pouring in late Wednesday (local time).

WebSitePulse, an online service that tracks outages in China, confirmed that cn.bing.com — the web address for Bing in China — was inaccessible in several parts of the country.

The outage, the apparent cause of which remains unknown, comes a day after Baidu, the most popular search engine in China, received complaints that it was promoting low-quality articles from Baijiahao, a news organization it owns, and other properties, in its search engine. Baidu said on Wednesday that it would improve its media aggregating service.

The Great Firewall is a state-run brutal internet censorship system, which the local government has used to block several global services including Google and Facebook.





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