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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by gitaarik »

NikkiA wrote: post #92
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

yeah of course that works because that just redirects to to another site

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by beretguy »

mrweasel wrote: post #94

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.

I kind of hope it’s something to do with AI, like, I don’t know, AI coming to conclusion that internet is bad for humanity and so it’s trying to shut down a search engine, or something mildly dystopian like that.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by pythux »

beretguy wrote: post #105
pythux wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, Brave engineer here. Brave Search is up and running (thanks to our fully independent index and no reliance on Bing whatsoever). Any 500 error is unrelated to the Bing incident. Would you be able to share a query if the 500 happens consistently? We’ll look into it. Thanks for your help, I hope that helps,

Test - works Test one - works Test one two three - got 500 Feels strange. Edit: Hello - works Hello world - 500 again It’s like, if you type in more than 1-2 words it gives you 500. Edit: Test one two - just gave me 500 this time. It’s not very consistent. Maybe it’s something on my end. I wonder if anybody can reproduce it. I made a screen recording to proof I’m not too crazy, if necessary.

Thanks! At the moment we are not observing any 500s on our end so it would definitely be very useful to get a screen recording so that we can pin-point any issue that you are facing.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by dewaldr »

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #97
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.

Wait until the ChatGPT API goes down one day and see how just about all startups from the last 12 months are just wrappers.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by beretguy »

ikt wrote: post #46

I duno how this isn't getting more views tbh Ecosia and Duckduckgo and Bing are down, there's at least 5% of the search engine market (the non-google part) down at the moment

Man, can you imagine if this happened to Google! I’m so curious now.
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