Baidu apologises for outage in its China search service
Mobile search site was down for some 19 minutes
Baidu, mainland China’s largest online search operator, has apologised for a temporary service suspension.
“Regarding the sudden inaccessibility of our mobile search site to the public, we are conducting emergency trouble-shooting,” the company said in a statement at its account on Weibo - the microblogging site operated by Sina.com - at around 9:20pm. “We apologise for the inconvenience caused.”
The company’s desktop search service was not affected, it added.
Some 19 minutes later, the company said in a separate Weibo posting that its mobile search service was resumed, and again apologised to users.
The company’s spokesperson said it has no further comment to make.
Baidu had 665 million of monthly mobile search service active users in December last year, according to Baidu’s fourth quarter earnings report released last week.