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DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK] (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Update: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-and-chatgpt-internet-search/

It's also important to note that ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are experiencing similar issues because they use the Bing API.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah Startpage and Ecosia too

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think having all the search engines being front ends for just bing and google has just revealed an obvious weakness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Funny thing is the way I found out bing was down is I searched for startpage in duckduckgo to try it thinking it might be a good alternative but when DDG wasnt working I tried it on ecosia. which was also down once I finally opened start page it wasn't working either. Its all bing all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

youcare.world is still up but that is based on google and I am not sure how legit the tree planting is. Not to mention their privacy policy mentions facebook which is always a red flag. https://youcare.world/privacy?l=en

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

they've also recently implemented an Al chatbot, which will probably offset all the trees they've ever planted in the next week or so

edit: I read the comment above me too quickly, I was talking about Ecosia mentioned in the comment before that one, not Youcare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Startpage actually worked for a moment for me. Then I had issues