Bad code update triggered to yahoo,Bing search crash

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 outchages 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 Bing search powers yahoo search under a 10 year deal announced in 2009.Yahoo was not immediatley available for comment.


Microsoft confirmed the outage,but declined to comment 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.

The person added,Once the problem was resolved,Yahoo had troubled handing the backlog of search request.


The Microsoft spokeman said in a brief statement Friday:This morning some of our customers experienced a brief,isolated service interruption which has own been resolved.
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