The Bing Screen of Death

By  |  Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Here’s an amazing Stupid Search Engine Trick: typing the words “view” and “topic” in one query (or “phpbb”) into Bing will crash it.

 
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  1. Tony Says:
    August 2nd, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    Is this some kind of viral ad or something? All those searches work perfectly fine for me. Including from the links in the article.

  2. The_Heraclitus Says:
    August 2nd, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    Nope. It doesn't crash with any of those 3 search terms.

    Did Technologizer get hacked or something?

  3. Harry McCracken Says:
    August 2nd, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    Looks like Bing may have fixed this–when I tried it right before writing this post, it worked. Or didn’t work, I mean…

  4. Tony Says:
    August 3rd, 2011 at 7:06 am

    But, on the other hand, it was the first time I've used Bing. So, there's that!

  5. Collins Says:
    August 3rd, 2011 at 8:02 am

    Well, entering "view" and "topic" didn't crash Bing for me, but "phpbb" alone did. It gave me the following message instead of search result for "phpbb":

    "Ref A: 1CC2EABB568E4950B279828F76E45FB0 Ref B: 640BBDC0F0C6CFC97C1B4DA4ABD9ABBD Ref C: Wed Aug 03 08:00:03 2011 PST"

    Funny.