It looks like the government of China has banned Bing, Microsoft's search engine, tonight.
Bing.com is not accessible inside China, per reports throughout the country.
Microsoft says ‘we’ve confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and are engaged to determine next steps.’
JUST IN: Microsoft says ‘we’ve confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and are engaged to determine next steps’ $MSFT pic.twitter.com/BGRZHCtaj3
— Reuters Tech News (@ReutersTech) January 24, 2019
#Microsoft confirms to Reuters that Bing is currently inaccessible in #China@StephenNellis
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) January 24, 2019
JUST IN from Microsoft: “We’ve confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and are engaged to determine next steps.”
— Sarah Zheng 鄭雅儒 (@_szheng) January 24, 2019
So as best I can tell, now that Bing appears to be blocked in China, the only English-language search engines still accessible to Chinese Internet users are Gibiru (which prides itself on indexing information on chemtrails and the like) and Yandex, the Russian search engine.
— Nathan VanderKlippe (@nvanderklippe) January 24, 2019
Then China came for Bing, and I did nothing, because I have never used Bing. https://t.co/YP6h4HRF4I
— Mike Forsythe 傅才德 (@PekingMike) January 24, 2019
