Can't wait to find out what happened here. This seems to be a massive outage. Interesting how fragile things become when so much technology is concentrated into just a few companies.
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#142DuckDuckNoGo
ah thats why ddg was down too?
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#143DDG has been down all morning (UK) on safari mobile and chrome on windows 10.
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#144Can't wait to find out what happened here. This seems to be a massive outage. Interesting how fragile things become when so much technology is concentrated into just a few companies.
It's always DNS.
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#145Duckduckgo doesn't work on Windows 11 but does work on Windows 10
I'm using 10 - it doesn't work for me.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You don't need to look hard to find this happen. OpenAI has had several API outages this year
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#147Actually Qwant.com uses bing API too and has a warning at the top of their homepage.
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#148Huh, of all those, ddg seems the odd one. I thought it used its own search service, didn't realise it was bing underneath. Even if that's not entirely true the fact that the home page is down due to the same reason that bing is down doesn't look good.
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#149Maybe this forces DDG and ChatGPT to make their own search engine index and corpus. Sure it might be a few years too late for the former, but thats probably what they said 5 years ago too.
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#150https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
It has not been down for me.