If your Windows 11 Start Menu search was acting weird for the past couple of days, Microsoft has finally acknowledged and fixed it via a server-side fix on April 8, 2026 (via Bleeping Computer). Apparently, a faulty Bing update quietly broke the Start Menu search function for a significant portion of Windows 11 23H2 users.
MicrosoftWhat broke the Start Menu search in the first place?
The culprit, quite ironically, was an update that was meant to make things better. It was a server-side Bing update designed to improve search performance that ended up doing the opposite. This caused the Start Menu search to malfunction.
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Affected devices either returned blank search results or failed to load any results, though, in a particularly cruel way, those invisible results were still clickable. The company logged the issue under the tracking ID
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