Bing is blank?

[MrZongle2]

Upside: renders quickly and identically in all browsers.

[elwell]

Actually, it doesn't 'render'. Looking in dev tools, it's a 404.

[ggchappell]

HTTPS gets me a blank page. The no-S version works fine:

http://www.bing.com/

[agumonkey]

Me too.

At first I thought the https dom rendering was locked, but it really is an ~empty tree (head with empty style, body).

[jekdoce]

Same here, http://www.bing.com works fine.

[bparsons]

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

[chrischen]

5 people couldn't do their searches today.

[chestnut-tree]

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.

[h4pless]

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.

[goatforce5]

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

[thinkpad20]

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

[guidopallemans]

.... video search

[terabytest]

That's the latest redesign. Microsoft are going for an increasingly minimalistic trend.

[sixothree]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937854

[wise_young_man]

They were early to the FlatUI trend. Now they are starting the ZeroUI trend.

[jon_kuperman]

Yep, expect 100% blank iPhone's coming in IOS 8.

[C1D]

I really like the new design, very good example of the new minimalist trend and "flat" look. It is really able to convey all the value I see in Bing in such a simple and minimalistic design.

Best move Microsoft has made since Windows XP.

[sixothree]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937698

[kirkbackus]

https://bing.com/ works fine, but https://www.bing.com/ doesn't work.

[mapleoin]

https://bing.com redirects to http://www.bing.com. https://www.bing.com doesn't redirect. It's just sloppy.

[Geee]

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[sixothree]

How does a story like this with all of the comment circle-jerking make it to the top of hacker news? I really wish I could down vote stories.

[colanderman]

There's been a LOT of uninteresting shit on the front page the past couple days. I consider them off-topic and flag them. Stories such as:

* How to defend yourself when your photo is ridiculed on Reddit (this has what to do with startups or technology?)

* Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner (same here)

* Amazon issues "Choking Hazard" warning for Testable JavaScript (the Daily WTF is that way →)

* this one (oh noes a 404 somewhere on teh interwebs, let's crack jokes)

all deserve flagging for being off-topic.

[undecisive]

Because everyone adores Microsoft, and is horrified and gutted that such a useful and loved addition to the internet ecosphere, backed by such an understaffed and money-starved corporation could be hindered by such a tragedy.

And because everyone is a sarcastic prick.

And on that note, does the fact that this is only occurring on HTTPS indicate that the only secure Bing is an empty Bing?

[brokenparser]

https://duckduckgo.com/

Problem solved.

[pmelendez]

Doesn't ddg use bing underneath?

[mbesto]

404 apparently

  curl -I https://www.bing.com
  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

[bluecalm]

It's not much of a challenge to beat Google at UI design but I am happy Bing team is constantly widening the gap.

First the reason I started using it: Google introducing ridiculously frequent captchas for VPN users.

Now there is an option to choose local/international search with one click instead of diving into constantly changing settings menu when using Google.

Also disabling adult filter without logging in is kinda handy and one would think basic privacy feature. Google is becoming more and more user hostile with every change and I like Bing more and more.

[tobyjsullivan]

I like Google atm because it works ;)

[madsushi]

We found him: timthelion is the one person that actually uses Bing.

[huhtenberg]

Psst .. DDG uses Bing. As does Facebook.

[caiob]

MS should reward you for noticing, rarely anyone actually goes onto bing.com

[jaredsohn]

I know your post was said in jest, but bing is ranked #22 on Alexa and #10 in the US. (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bing.com) and gets over 17% of search marketshare.

The top sites, if people are curious: http://www.alexa.com/topsites

[heydenberk]

The flattest UI.

[FrankenPC]

It's modern hyper-minimalism. GENIUS!

[Blahah]

best it's ever looked

[foolproof]

https://ssl.bing.com is where they host "secure" content at, apparently. [1]

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Assl.bing.com

[kintamanimatt]

For posterity: http://i.imgur.com/mb3bpwJ.png

[antr]

Less is more? http://d.pr/i/FhLN