Bing, Yahoo search engines suffer brief outage

There was no initial indication as to what caused the outage, but social media sites such as Twitter quickly spread the word about the outage.

Gizmodo reported that the outage was not isolated to Microsoft's Bing, but hit other Microsoft services such as Outlook and Hotmail.

A Microsoft spokesperson stated, "This morning, some of our customers experienced a brief, isolated services interruption which has now been resolved."

Here is a look at some of the initial social media conversation around the outage:

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