[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage?
[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage?
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EDIT: looks like they're back.
yes, everyone on earth.
Bing API is down, which has killed some things.
90 0 ReplyI thought Startpage used Google, not Bing?
18 0 ReplyThis definitely makes me confused. I thought their whole thing was that they were a proxy for google results??
7 0 ReplyYeah, me too
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Microsoft’s Bing API services (the source of DuckDuckGo’s search data) went down at approx 3am ET and has not yet returned to service. Bing, DuckDuckGo, CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.
61 1 ReplyEcosia was affected too. It's Bing with trees.
22 0 ReplyThought it was google with trees
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CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.
That's sad, since one would logically expect any AI to get better if it loses access to Bing search results.
10 0 Replyhuh, I thought ddg had its own indexer?
5 1 ReplyOnly for the instant answers. The regular results are all bing
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This is the moment in Scooby-Doo where the gang unmasks the person they've just caught and underneath is just the Microsoft Bing logo
58 0 ReplySomebody really Binged it up.
18 0 ReplyBingus
8 0 ReplyBingus Duckus
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Time to ditch duckduckBing
25 11 ReplyWhy? Because it is down or because you just noticed that is is basicly just a Bing-Proxy?
38 3 ReplyProbably because it's down. I for one am surprised they have no failover for when Bing goes down.
16 3 ReplyIt’s my backup search engine. I use Brave and Searx as the main search engines.
8 2 ReplyNah, just switched to searx for a day, and came back once DDG was up again.
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It's back now.
9 0 ReplyI noticed it starting months ago with Startpage, and yesterday with DuckDuckGo. Always fall back to Searx. And since I know the former two are just Google/Bing proxies, I NEVER search anything on them that may be questionable or shady or can be judgemental in the future.
8 0 ReplyYes I had. DuckDuckGo was crippled as Bing was down today.
8 0 Replystartpage was fine for me
6 0 ReplyIt seemed to be out last night for me. Came up with no results for some really basic searches
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I was wondering why Ecosia didn't give me any search results yesterday. Well, now I know.
5 0 ReplyAhhhh my self hosted SearXNG is inmune HA!
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2 0 ReplyIts a known issue
2 2 ReplyYes. It even interrupted a flashing procedure of a device of mine and almost bricked it
2 5 ReplyHow does a search engine being offline interrupt a device flashing?
43 0 ReplyIts quite embarrassing you've asked this, tbh. Obviously you've never run
dd if=$(while :; do curl bing.com/q=$RANDOM; done) of=/dev/sda1
and I think that's sad.
20 1 ReplyIdk why it happened. Maybe the program uses that API to find new firmware versions. It was stuck at the beginning of the procedure
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Wait what?
4 0 ReplyThe flashing app detected the device. The next step was downloading firmware and it was stuck on it for minutes (usually it takes a second or two). I almost ended up rebooting the device (which could absolutely brick it) but fortunately it found the firmware. Then I tested DDG to see if it was up. I don't really remember if it was but I think it was working for a few seconds
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why don't they just build their own indexer and AI crawler... Brave is newer yet surpassed both of them
6 16 Replyyes, this is why I love Brave search! the only privacy search engine with their own indexer.
2 6 Replyshill harder somewhere else
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