DuckDuckGo was down • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by saikatsg » Thu, May 23, 2024, 8:47 AM UTC

dvh wrote: post #60

It was me. I asked it which pigeon has orange beak and it crashed it.

Let me help you ;) https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-and-white-bird-with-orange-...

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 23, 2024, 8:52 AM UTC

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #57

DuckDuckGo also is unable to provide search results, which seems to confirm they use Bing as a base for their searches.

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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by beretguy » Thu, May 23, 2024, 8:53 AM UTC

alentred wrote: post #14

https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by beretguy » Thu, May 23, 2024, 8:54 AM UTC

cbovis wrote: post #49

Non-Google recommendations in the interim?

Kagi

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by beretguy » Thu, May 23, 2024, 8:55 AM UTC

rurban wrote: post #47

bun_terminator wrote: post #28

They lost all relevance after they gleefully announced their manipulation of search results 2 years ago

Still better than Google

Still there are better alternatives to ddg. I use Brave and Kagi.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by adamomada » Thu, May 23, 2024, 8:56 AM UTC

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #57

DuckDuckGo also is unable to provide search results, which seems to confirm they use Bing as a base for their searches.

Startpage too, but only on mobile (???)

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by jmcnulty » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:02 AM UTC

They're aware of the problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1cynfft/duckduc...

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by linker3000 » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:06 AM UTC

dvh wrote: post #60

It was me. I asked it which pigeon has orange beak and it crashed it.

Actually, I think it was me asking "Show me an example of a major systems outage at Microsoft."

/Bets on "If it's not DNS, they'll be rolling back a poorly-tested patch they just installed."?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by farmdve » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:09 AM UTC

While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by Neroilek » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:10 AM UTC

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