DuckDuckGo was down • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#91

Post by mgoetzke » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:48 AM UTC

Teamviewer also seems to have issues. No one in our company can even log in, not even get past the email screen in their own web app

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#92

Post by NikkiA » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:49 AM UTC

voidUpdate wrote: post #74

DDG relying on bing for doing searches is... strange to me. I feel like I've seen its own web crawler in my access logs

It's other ! commands still work though, so !g will work as a backup or even !yandex if you feel that way inclined (and don't mind answering endless captchas

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by SSLy » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:50 AM UTC

pooper wrote: post #83

Kye wrote: post #75

DuckDuckNoGo

What makes me sad is that even the url decode function of duck duck go failed :( I'd have thought at least that part would work.

at least the !bangs still work, they probably are implemented at their load balancers

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#94

Post by mrweasel » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:52 AM UTC

Is it just me or is it really weird that neither Microsoft, or ANY of the search engines that uses Bing on the backend has posted anything about this?

DuckDuckGo and Ecosia has not been working all morning (CET) but there is zero indication on their sites that they are even aware of the problem. DuckDuckGo has a single Reddit posts and that's it.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#95

Post by beretguy » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:52 AM UTC

I don’t see anybody mentioning Brave Search. I’m getting 500. Anybody else?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by rurban » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:54 AM UTC

beretguy wrote: post #65

rurban wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still better than Google

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

But not free. I use Fennec with ddg. Loved Kagi, but too expensive for my German income

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by Aaargh20318 » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:56 AM UTC

beretguy wrote: post #95

I don’t see anybody mentioning Brave Search. I’m getting 500. Anybody else?

One of the interesting things about this downtime is that it has highlighted how many 'alternative' search engines are really just a front-end for Bing.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by jollyca » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:56 AM UTC

mnuu wrote: post #42

DDG down here

Same here - it used to work intermittently this morning (1 out of 3 searches), but now I get the same error every time

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by __jonas » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:57 AM UTC

pooper wrote: post #85

__jonas wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

I tried marginalia with site: for my blog. > This website is not known to the search engine. To submit the website for crawling, follow these instructions.

Yes, it's not a massive index that already includes every known website, that's not the goal of it at all.

Is there something wrong with these instructions?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#100

Post by SushiHippie » Thu, May 23, 2024, 10:01 AM UTC

According to the comments on this lemmy post [0] Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, StartPage, Qwant are/were affected

[0] https://lemmy.world/post/15708430