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Microsoft seeks to know why Bing went offline in China

Bing is back online in China, but Microsoft says it is still trying to figure out why it suddenly became inaccessible. [Photo: AFP]

Microsoft is still trying to figure out why its Bing search engine temporarily went offline in China, the company's president said following speculation that it could have been blocked by censors.

The US firm's Chinese website, cn.bing.com, was accessible again late Thursday, one day after it suddenly went offline, temporarily taking away the most prominent foreign search engine in China.

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