I just experienced this as well. I had a giggle when I opened a new tab and searched "is duckduckgo down" and the default search engine is ... duckduckgo.
Still no results .. strange :P
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#12What a coincidence!
I used it after 3-4 months and it didn't show any search results. Thought I had forgotten how to use their !bangs feature. Turns out it is down
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#13bing.com also down, looks like duckduckgo is frontend to bing at least bing images, https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=katrina
It seems that https://www.startpage.com also uses Bing for its images.
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#14https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment.
Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
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#15https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
Does it vary by region? Mine works fine for bing.
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#16https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
Maybe today's the day we find out DDG is just a UI to an Amazon Go-style backend: a room full of workers in India typing the queries into Bing and copy/pasting the results back to you.
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#17same. I just noticed it too, about 30 minutes ago
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#18It seems to be all search engines powered by Bing. Ecosia isn't working either, and they also don't have a status page.
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#19Started about an hour ago (~1716454800000)
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#20https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
DDG runs on bing, so that squares. Apparently, MS uses Bing for their portal, because I can't search inside Azure portal neither.