BNET-- Electrical fire shuts down Bing Travel — An electrical fire in Seattle shut down Bing Travel, Microsoft Corp.’s new search engine, for 36 hours over Independence Day weekend. The fire started Thursday night in Fisher Plaza, an area that houses studios and servers for Web sites and television. While Bing Travel was offline, Microsoft diverted users to Orbitz, another of its partners, a spokeswoman for Microsoft told reporters. Power was restored on Saturday. The company also released a statement saying that they felt they had the service up as quickly as possible. Bing Travel apparently had no backup servers to rely on during the incident.
