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Microsoft's MSN Search Restored
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours Thursday.
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours
Thursday.
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search engine stopped working for about four hours
Thursday.
Microsoft spokesman Justin Osmer said in an e-mail that the company was
still trying to determine what went wrong.
During the outage, which began about 8:30 a.m. and was being restored
as of about 12:15 p.m., users who tried to find Web pages were told the
service was unavailable and that, "Our team is working to restore
service as quickly as possible."
Microsoft's MSN Search is the No. 3 search provider in the United States,
according to Nielsen/NetRatings, behind market leaders Google Inc. and
Yahoo Inc. Nielsen/NetRatings said MSN provided 10.7 percent of all U.S.
search results in February, compared with 48.5 percent for Google and
22.5 percent for Yahoo.