Bad code update triggered Yahoo, Bing search crash: source
Source: Reuters
Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp search engines temporarily went dark on Friday after Microsoft pushed out a bad code update and then struggled to roll it back, a person briefed on the outages told Reuters.
The outages were not caused by an outside attack, the person said, declining to be named because the discussion concerned internal Yahoo matters.
Microsoft's Bing search engine powers Yahoo search under a 10-year deal announced in 2009. Yahoo was not immediately available for comment. Microsoft confirmed the outage, but declined to comment on the cause.
On Friday afternoon, users who typed search.yahoo.com got an error message saying that Yahoo engineers were working to resolve the issue. The search engine appeared to be working again later in the day.
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I didn't know yahoo searches were really bing searches.
It's a shame firefox switched to yahoo for its default search engine,
I switched back to google after getting bad results.
For example, went to install vlc on a new computer, bing's first hit was some third-party website, google's first hit was the official videolan.org website.
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...I'd never run windows any other way. 
