Users in various areas of the Earth, such as the U.S., said Friday no picture results were returned once they hunted for the expression"tank guy."
The photograph has turned into a sign of defiance across the world.
After being alerted by terrorists, Microsoft explained in a statement that the problem has been"because of an inadvertent human error and continues to be solved."
The company didn't elaborate on what exactly the human mistake was how it had occurred. Nor did it state how much of its own Bing development group is China-based. The business's biggest research and development centre outside the USA is currently in China, and it published work in January to get a China-based senior applications engineer to lead a group which develops the technology powering Bing picture search.
Chinese governments need search engines, sites and societal networking platforms working within the nation to censor key words and outcomes deemed sensitive or critical of the Chinese authorities.
Microsoft's Bing is one of the very few global search engines which run in China, in which it abides by local censorship legislation and competes with bigger Chinese search engines like Baidu and Sogou.
Rival Google left over the Chinese marketplace in 2010 following four decades of operation, after disputes over censorship and also a significant hacking attack that Google considers originated in China.
