Update: sometime after this item was published, Microsoft fixed the bug discussed here that caused links to items on Microsoft corporate blogs to retun HTTP 404 (Not Found) errors when accessed with mobile browsers.<\/em><\/p>\n
Last week Microsoft announced the launch of Bing Deals, a Groupon inspired feature of Bing Search.\u00a0 Created in partnership with The Deal Map<\/a>, Bing Deals aggregates money saving offers in your area from Groupon, Living Social, Restaurant.com<\/em> and other sites.<\/p>\n
The announcement was made on the Bing Search Blog<\/a>. I first heard about it on Twitter where several of my Twitter friends posted a link to the announcement.\u00a0 I’m a compulsive bargain hunter and Bing Deals promised a mobile version so I clicked the link and landed – not on the Blog post or on Bing Deals but on a 404 “web page doesn’t exist” error page.<\/p>\n
What happened?\u00a0 Well the Twitter link was a short URL pointing at www.bing.com\/community\/site_blogs\/b\/search\/archive\/2011\/03\/03\/bing-launches-deals.aspx<\/a>. When I clicked that link the bing.com web app detected that I was using a mobile device and redirected me to m.bing.com\/community\/site_blogs\/b\/search\/archive\/2011\/03\/03\/bing-launches-deals.aspx<\/a> which doesn’t exist.\u00a0 Depending on which mobile browser I used I got either a 404 page (Android browser) or a soft 404 to the Bing homepage at m.bing.com (Opera Mini).\u00a0 I didn’t even see Bing Deals on the homepage with Opera Mini because the mobile version is only served to the Android and iOS browsers.<\/p>\n
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Update: sometime after this item was published, Microsoft fixed the bug discussed here that caused links to items on Microsoft corporate blogs to retun HTTP 404 (Not Found) errors when accessed with mobile browsers. -> Last week Microsoft announced the launch of Bing Deals, a Groupon inspired feature of Bing Search.\u00a0 Created in partnership with The Deal Map, Bing Deals aggregates money saving offers in your area from Groupon, Living Social, Restaurant.com and other sites. The announcement was made on … Continue reading