Mobile Search Engine Baidu Goes Dark For Nearly 20 Minutes

Zoey Chong, writing for CNET: Baidu is China's equivalent of Google, but hundreds of millions of questions went unanswered when the mobile version of the search engine broke down for 18 minutes last night, reports SCMP. Almost two hours after service was resumed, the company behind China's largest internet search engine apologised (for the third time) on its official Weibo account. "We missed more than hundreds of millions of search requests because our mobile search service broke down tonight, and we're very sorry," the post read.

We're sorry

[Anonymous Coward]

We had to install new government backdoors and it took more time than we planned.

Re:

[GameboyRMH]

It's not like they ever would've found any porn anyway, searching behind the Great Firewall, on a Chinese search engine.

Too little?

[aglider]

Maybe staying dark for longer could help the world!

I wondered...

[Oswald McWeany]

I wondered why my searches for "Proof Tiananmen Square massacre is a hoax" and "Why the communist party knows what is best for me better than I do" went unanswered for 20 minutes.

We so sorry

[Opportunist]

Boilerman got sick last night.

Bring 'em over to the USA

[Neuronwelder]

for some real power outages!! Ha! 20 minutes eh? Try most of a day in the US. On a few occasions I experienced that. And our companies could care less if you don't have service. Call and you get a recording of outages in your area and an estimate of when they will be back up. Just try to get some money refunded for not being able to use the net! Ha!

Why isn't there more than one

[Mark Stewart]

independent instances.

And?

[Gravis Zero]

I'm confused. Am I supposed to have an opinion on this? They had a technical failure, resolved it and life still moves on. So what's the point of harping on this fact?

more than hundreds of millions

[jjeffries]

"more than hundreds of millions"... if only there was a word for this...