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10.04.2006

Hours-long outage affects MSN search

Microsoft Corp.'s MSN search engine, the third most popular in the U.S., suffered an hours-long outage late last week as queries returned an error message instead of Web page results. The outage began around 8:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time last Thursday and ended around noon, a spokeswoman said. The company was working to find the cause of the problem late last week.