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TL;DR: bing SSL certificate is wrong. https://bing.com : subject=/CN=*.bing.com https://www.bing.com : subject=/C=US/O=Akamai Technologies, Inc./CN=a248.e.akamai.net
Wow, that's the first time I've ever seen a 0-word article get the TL;DR treatment.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
TL;DR means "here's a very short explanation".
Who else remembers when it used to be an insult? I preferred it that way.
Bing is important. It's a good search engine, comparable to Google's quality and size. And it's the only competition Google has in the US and most of Europe. (Sites like DuckDuckGo and Yahoo pass queries on to Bing). Dumb errors like this SSL problem are embarassing, but the larger frustration is how despite years of having a good product, they have so little market traction.
Its so impressing how Bing manages to deliver search results as well curated as those from Google. But wait, I just remembered that is because of they rely on search results from Google. ;P http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-g...
TL;DR: bing SSL certificate is wrong. https://bing.com : subject=/CN=*.bing.com https://www.bing.com : subject=/C=US/O=Akamai Technologies, Inc./CN=a248.e.akamai.net
Bing does support SSL on ssl.bing.com and publishes various links on that sub-domain, such as https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/home/mysites
The fact that the https://www.bing.com redirects to the HTTP version should be enough to show that this a known, unsupported case on the primary domain. The behavior has been like that for years.
Bing is important. It's a good search engine, comparable to Google's quality and size. And it's the only competition Google has in the US and most of Europe. (Sites like DuckDuckGo and Yahoo pass queries on to Bing). Dumb errors like this SSL problem are embarassing, but the larger frustration is how despite years of having a good product, they have so little market traction.
Sure they might be godo enough that if they are a default, lots of people won't worry about changing, but not being as good as Google means there isn't much impetus for Google users to switch.