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Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage... All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page...
Edit: it all seems to be related to bing being down. I hope the independent engines will find a way to get really independent...
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That's just Bing down with all of it's puppets rebrands.
As I stated here https://ttrpg.network/comment/7065350
It seems search engines supposedly using their own data, or acting as FE for Google, are down, too
Google doesn't
I found out what was going on from Yahoo! Lol. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/bing-api-down-taking-microsoft-090532873.html
They all use Bing's, idk how i feel about that fact actually. Curious what you others use. Just as a thought experiment.
Been an avid ddg user but hate how it sometimes does push this micropoop nonsenses. Like msn news
I've been using Kagi, and although it has a pricetag, and not quite as good as Google, I am happy with it and has worked well for me.
Same with me.
The Bing frontends are down.
Seems to be related to bing using AI now...
Yet, DuckDuckGo and Startpage seem down, too. ~~Even though DDG supposedly uses its own results, and SP supposedly is a FE for Google~~ DDG uses Bing results and SP aggregates Google and Bing results
"We're totally not just rewrapping Bing results!!!"
Well it ses that bing is down too, and most independent search engines are a warper arround bing so...
DDG was working earlier today, but for the past hour it just throws an error "There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again."
Same. Duck duck go is down for me.
Fascinating, Duckduckgo isn't working for me aswell.
lol how could they all go down at the same time
I have no idea, but I can't LOL...