I was trying to debug some VPN issues where Google wasn't loading right so I headed over to everyone's good friend Bing. It seemed to load so I searched "bing is working" as a nothing search to confirm that worked too.
What I assume is Copilot helpfully informed me that Bing was experiencing an outage and Copilot was unavailable. Looking at the link, The story was from May 23rd. Wow, that's some long outage. So I bing-ed "is bing down" and thank god, Copilot was there to tell me it was not down and in fact there had not been an outage since August of last year and was only 32 minutes long. Just to be safe, I checked to see "is bing working" and yes, more confirmation. It's up. That's lucky because according to the top story it's citing, Copilot was down for hours. That had me a little worried about the future, so I searched what to do next time "bing is down". It helpfully told me to try another search engine. You know? I think I might
