Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

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Post by paradoxparalax » Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 12:26 AM UTC

dboon wrote: post #79

paradoxparalax wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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very strange comment

Thanks for pointing.

I went to read my comment above with Maximum Attention, too see why is strange, or If there is something strange on the my comment. So...

Yes, there is something strange, thanks for pointing, dboon.

Sounded like I want a Competent War Monger as my ruler.

No, just to clarify, I want a Competent Not War Monger.

Thanks.

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

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Post by draw_down » Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 1:23 PM UTC

ahoka wrote: post #57

jtokoph wrote: post #24

It honestly makes no difference. Bing search in China was absolutely useless the last few times I was there. Searches for any keyword, including technical terms, just returned a list of unrelated “news” articles.

I had the exact same experience with Bing outside of China.

Come on

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

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Post by carlmr » Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 8:21 AM UTC

entity345 wrote: post #42

carlmr wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean Bing also means sick in Chinese, so it's not a good choice of name.

Written as 'bing' is may mean many, many things. I doubt any Chinese will say 'bing' means 'sick' not least because a syllable means nothing to them without a tone.

It's very likely the first thing they'll think of, I never said it's the only thing. We're talking about a country here where many elevators don't have a 4th floor because 4 is the same syllable (with a different tone), as death. Same goes for Japan btw.

Re: Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

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Post by cauldron » Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 1:44 PM UTC

jamp897 wrote: post #23

idrios wrote: post #3

This actually surprises me for how much effort Microsoft puts into being compliant with China. Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo's relationship with Alibaba. I was an expat last year and with Google (& DuckDuckGo) blocked I already had pretty few options of search engine. Short of learning enough Chinese to manage Baidu, I can't imagine how hard it would be to use internet as a foreigner in China no…

My AT&T iPhone wasn’t blocked when roaming in China, it seems they make exceptions for foreign phones. They’re censors are very clever at knowing where the limits are.

Coz your roaming data are literally in an AT&T VPN all the way back to America.