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Mobile Search Engine Baidu Goes Dark For Nearly 20 Minutes (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the outage-report dept.

Zoey Chong, writing for CNET: Baidu is China's equivalent of Google, but hundreds of millions of questions went unanswered when the mobile version of the search engine broke down for 18 minutes last night, reports SCMP. Almost two hours after service was resumed, the company behind China's largest internet search engine apologised (for the third time) on its official Weibo account. "We missed more than hundreds of millions of search requests because our mobile search service broke down tonight, and we're very sorry," the post read.

19 comments

  1. We're sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    We had to install new government backdoors and it took more time than we planned.

    1. Re:We're sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Due to the large population of China, that's an awful lot of interrupted porn searches.

    2. Re:We're sorry by GameboyRMH · · Score: 1

      It's not like they ever would've found any porn anyway, searching behind the Great Firewall, on a Chinese search engine.

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  2. More like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    People had to find something else to do for 18 minutes. Oh no!

  3. Too little? by aglider · · Score: 1

    Maybe staying dark for longer could help the world!

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  4. Haha the Left! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Leftists' car Fiat rock bottom in Consumer Reports' ranking :P

    First impressions, the leftists' only decision process, are rarely correct.

  5. Another casualty! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe they too were using S3 in us-east-1, but just a little?

  6. I wondered... by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 1

    I wondered why my searches for "Proof Tiananmen Square massacre is a hoax" and "Why the communist party knows what is best for me better than I do" went unanswered for 20 minutes.

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  7. We so sorry by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    Boilerman got sick last night.

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  8. Probably Just a bug. by mr_java66 · · Score: 0

    Probably Just a bug. It sucks. It happens. Don't let it distract you from innovating new technologies to control your populace. :-?

  9. 20 minutes of Slashdot journalism. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So msmash, the article text says Baidu was down for only 18 minutes, but you wrote was down 20 minutes, why? You trying to build propiganda on Best China search engineers?

  10. Reporting Load Balancer broke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Real time search reporting load balancer broke for some reason. Can't allow un-monitored searches.

  11. Bring 'em over to the USA by Neuronwelder · · Score: 1

    for some real power outages!! Ha! 20 minutes eh? Try most of a day in the US. On a few occasions I experienced that. And our companies could care less if you don't have service. Call and you get a recording of outages in your area and an estimate of when they will be back up. Just try to get some money refunded for not being able to use the net! Ha!

  12. Why isn't there more than one by pjv936 · · Score: 1

    independent instances.

  13. And? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. Am I supposed to have an opinion on this? They had a technical failure, resolved it and life still moves on. So what's the point of harping on this fact?

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  14. more than hundreds of millions by jjeffries · · Score: 1

    "more than hundreds of millions"... if only there was a word for this...

  15. Boolean search by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://radiotherapydictionary...