‘Tank Man’ Image Search Showed No Results on Bing Due to Human Error, Microsoft Says

‘Tank Man’ Image Search Showed No Results on Bing Due to Human Error, Microsoft Says
A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace during the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 5, 1989. Jeff Widener/AP Photo
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Microsoft on Friday said that its search engine Bing yielded no results when users entered the query “tank man” in the United States and elsewhere for part of Friday because of “accidental human error.”

Users in the United States and other countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore, reported that Bing returned the message “There are no results for tank man” when they tried to search the term.

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