Perhaps it's time to give Mojeek a try if you haven't already.
Unfortunately I tried to DDG 'mojeek', but that didn't work!
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#162Maybe 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.
Do DDG and ChatGPT believe that they could do a better job of uptime than Microsoft?
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#163Bing is working though, DDG still down
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#164Death by outsourcing.
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#165So much about DuckDuckGo's claim that Bing is only a part of their search results.
I‘m pretty sure it was always just a proxy for bing. Just stripping away the Microsoft tracking.
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#166Can'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.
Genuine question, are distributed systems naturally more resilient? I can see arguments for both sides. Your point and then the hidden failure modes without central observability and ownership. Nothing exists in isolation.
Distribution alone doesn't make a system resilient. A distributed system can help with resilience for anything related to network or hardware failure, but even then you need to make sure the different resources don't have a hard dependency on each other.
If you want a resilient system redundancy and automatic failover systems are really important, along with solid error handling.
Think about a distributed data store for example. You may spread all your data across multiple distributed areas, but if each area is managing a shard of data and they aren't replications then you still lose functionality when any one region goes down. If you instead have a copy complete copy of data in each region, and a system to automatically switch regions if the primary goes down, your system is much more resilient to outages (though also more complex and expensive).
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#167So much about DuckDuckGo's claim that Bing is only a part of their search results.
Just the way they market it. Almost 100% positive their organic results are purely Bing. The 'other sources' seems to be a sleight of hand wrt wiki boxes etc.
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#168> Hopefully DDG will be back soon, as I'm loathe to go back to Google for search.
Maybe Kagi is an option for you? I'm very happy with them and exclusively use them for more than a year now after never getting comfortable with DDG.
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#169Bing is down and the rest of those use Bing for results?
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#170Maybe 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.
Do DDG and ChatGPT believe that they could do a better job of uptime than Microsoft?
Its not just a question of uptime but dependencies too. The moment it doesnt make strategic sense to have an open Bing API for Microsoft, anyone reliant on them is in for a world of hurt. Especially if its the core feature of your product (ie DDG)