Bing Search is currently down and/or having massive latency issues. The Bing home page loads a gray dull background, the Bing search results mostly loads errors pages and if it loads search results, those results are sparse. Plus, Bing's APIs are down, so Microsoft Copilot and other services are down, including partners like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, ChatGPT Search are all down.
Plus, it seems many of the Microsoft Advertising platform are having issues as well.
I updated this story at 7:35 pm ET to say Microsoft was transitioning requests to alternate service components to expedite service recovery. The story was originally published at 5:50 am ET.
Techmeme has the roundup of outage coverage but as it says, "A massive Microsoft outage affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo."
If you try to search Bing, you will often get various error pages, including this Panda:
Bing's partners like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, ChatGPT Search are all down - here are some screenshots:
According to Downdector.com Bing has been having issues since around 1:30am ET - so this outage has been going on for several hours:
The Microsoft Ad platform server status page shows outages as well:
Microsoft is, of course, aware of the issue:
We're investigating an issue where users may be unable to access the Microsoft Copilot service. We're working to isolate the cause of the issue. More information can be found in the admin center under CP795190.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) May 23, 2024
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Update: It's back. Around 6:15am ET, it seems the services are now back up and running - at least for me at this moment. Although, many users are still telling me it is not working for them.
Update 2: At 7:35pm ET, Microsoft said it is "transitioning requests to alternate service components to expedite service recovery."
While we isolate the root cause, we're transitioning requests to alternate service components to expedite service recovery. More information can be found in the admin center under CP795190.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) May 23, 2024
Update 2: 2:40 pm ET still working on it:
Our telemetry indicates that the service is continuing to recover. We're actively investigating the underlying cause of the issue and will take further mitigation actions as necessary. More information can be found in the admin center under CP795190.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) May 23, 2024
Update 3: May 24th at 1:34 pm ET Microsoft said it is now fixed.
We've completed the mitigations, and our telemetry has confirmed that all Copilot features are functioning as expected. More information can be found in the admin center under CP795190.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) May 24, 2024
