In what could be a blow to its image, Microsoft's main Bing search site suffered through an outage on Thursday evening.Visitors to Bing.com were getting a browser error message rather than a search bar. Service was down for at least 45 minutes before being restored around 7:10 p.m. PST.
Microsoft acknowledged the issues it on its Twitter feed and said it was looking into the matter but offered no explanation.
A Microsoft representative did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.
The outage comes after a big week in which Microsoft announced new search abilities for Bing as well as improved mapping.