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The bigger question here is: Why were you looking at Bing to begin with? It has probably been like this for months.

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5 people couldn't do their searches today.

Interestingly enough, according to Alexa bing.com is #10 ranked site in the US, #22 worldwide.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com

Remember that it's the default page for a lot of people who don't know how to change it.

The number of time I had to fix that on people's computers...

Thats the initial first load of IE causing that traffic, then the user goes to their next journey. You really need analysis on 'http://www.bing.com/search?q='

Recently, iOS7 shifted all Siri queries to Bing by default. Seems to work quite similarly, but I'm sure that's pushing accesses and usage quite a bit more now.

#10 in the search engine world might as well not exist.

It's #10 of all sites, not just search engines.

OOPS! That's not a bad number at all then.

I find their translate tool better than Google. I sometimes get a garbled English translation from Google, Bing more often returns a more comprehensible English translation. Of course, I can't vouch for how accurate the translation is.

Also, the photos they showcase everday on their site are often quite awesome or beautiful.

Bing's video search with the SafeSearch turned off is probably the best porn search engine/browser on the internet. I'm guessing the OP was looking for porn. At least that's what I'm usually doing with it. Now why was he trying to access Bing via an HTTPS connection which lead him to this blank page? I'm guessing naughty porn.

I find the "Birds Eye" view in their maps service to be useful and neat.

bing is good for certain things, if you know what I mean >_~

.... video search

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