MSN's search engine suffers outage

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MSN's search engine crashed on Thursday afternoon.

A message posted on the site read: "The service is currently unavailable. Our team is working to restore service as quickly as possible. Please try your request again later."

The reason for the outage was not disclosed. Calls to Microsoft, the site's parent company, were not immediately returned.

MSN is vying to cut into the massive lead in the search engine category held by Google.

Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News. He is a former reporter for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. E-mail Greg, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sandoCNET.

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by JohnMcMahon-PC July 26, 2009 5:15 PM PDT: I am interested in your role in bringing honest tech news to we, the computer users in this country. I sincerely hope your motives are in improving technology. There are plenty of dishonest companies in this field.; Like this Reply to this comment

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