Google Bard and Microsoft Bing Chat quoted error messages, saying that Bard had been shut down on March 21 and had been online for less than 6 months.

CTOnews.com March 28, Microsoft's Bing Chat and Google's Bard have greatly changed the way users search through chat. But both are web-based, and the content provided is not necessarily correct.

A netizen Juan Buis asked Bard: "how long can Google run before shutting down Bard?" Bard replied: "Google shut down Bard on March 21, 2023, less than six months before its launch."

In the ridicule of many netizens, Google has a "closing department", which specializes in cutting off some services with low user activity and poor profitability, such as Google Reader. Netizens have even created a killedbygoogle website dedicated to services that Google has cut.

CTOnews.com learned from the report that Tom Warren, editor-in-chief of foreign science and technology media The Verge, asked Bing chat again and got the answer that it was still closed on March 21. Links from Windows Central and other media are also attached at the end of the article.

Warren said the message actually came from a user comment on Hacker News.