Microsoft and Yahoo Confirm Search Outages

kalleboo wrote: post #3

> When you perform a web search from Yahoo.com, you’re redirected to search.yahoo.com, and this has only been returning a blank page So Yahoo.com runs on PHP?

How did that quote indicate anything about PHP?

Re: Microsoft and Yahoo Confirm Search Outages

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Post by rgbrenner » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 6:38 PM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #3

> When you perform a web search from Yahoo.com, you’re redirected to search.yahoo.com, and this has only been returning a blank page So Yahoo.com runs on PHP?

No idea what PHP has to do with that quote.. but Yahoo did use PHP: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1491221

Of course, that was quite a while ago.. before nodejs, go, rails, etc... so no idea if that's still the case.

Re: Microsoft and Yahoo Confirm Search Outages

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Post by icantthinkofone » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 7:38 PM UTC

And no one noticed.

Re: Microsoft and Yahoo Confirm Search Outages

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Post by asyncwords » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 7:47 PM UTC

icantthinkofone wrote: post #7

And no one noticed.

Bing provides search results for Siri and powers Cortana. I'm sure somebody noticed.

Re: Microsoft and Yahoo Confirm Search Outages

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Post by _nickwhite » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 8:21 PM UTC

I use Windows Phone, and I noticed. Voice commands (Cortana) didn't work at all, and searching via the search button didn't work either. At one point during the outage, hitting bing.com pulled up the default IIS page from Windows Server 2012R2.

Re: Microsoft and Yahoo Confirm Search Outages

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Post by smegel » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 8:50 PM UTC

Just went to do a Yahoo search out of interest. The landing page was reasonable...but the search results page were horrible. Look like something out of the late 90s.

Maybe I have come to appreciate Google's integrated search results that show snippets of News, Images and a kind of Wiki summary, all at the top in a well structured way.