It crashed, big deal. Google has had server problems in the thousands. Maybe the servers couldn't handle the traffic? I'm not sure, but I know that just because they had a down-time, doesn't mean the search engine fails.
There's a lot of Bing-bashers here, and I have to say, I don't use the search engine myself as I love Google. But I remember not too many months ago Google had an error where it was reporting ALL search results as potential malicious websites. Even popular websites like www.yahoo.com and www.neowin.net. So search engines are not without their fault. Given how new Bing is, I'm surprised this is the first time its had a major outage.
Seems the M$ cant beat Google, but 8% of the search engine market must give alot of $$$$$$ since they are trieng so hard to get more market share
I am not giving that much importance to bing, So whatever may happen in bing, i just dont need to worry.