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(Jeff Widener/AP Photo)‘Tank Man’ Image Search Showed No Results on Bing Due to Human Error, Microsoft SaysMicrosoft on Friday said that its search engine Bing yielded no results when users entered the query “tank man” in the United States and elsewhere for part of Friday because of “accidental human error.”Users in the United States and other countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore, reported that Bing returned the message “There are no results for tank man” when they tried to search the term. Meanwhile, rival search engine Google, on the other hand, returned many results for the image when the “tank man” query was entered on Friday. Smaller search engines such as DuckDuckGo that license results from Microsoft faced similar issues around “tank man” searches and said they expected a fix soon. Several hours after the issue was reported, Bing returned images of the iconic “tank man” for the search query as of early Saturday eastern time. “Outrageous: on the anniversary of the murderous Tiananmen Square crackdown, Microsoft’s Bing search engine suddenly won’t return any images if you search for ‘tank man,’ the iconic photo.