A Conflagration of Randomness

The Bing search engine had a major outage on December 3, 2009.  As many search engines users know, if a search engine fails, that is many dollars of revenue for the company lost. A search engine as big as Bing get sometimes close to a million searches per minute, which means for the 30 minutes that Bing was down, that is approximately 30 million searches that could not be completed. Of course the half hour I chose to use Bing for the first time, it had a server error