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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by Vinnl »

notRobot wrote: post #248
npteljes wrote: post #228

I love the acknowledgement that DDG put on their page. We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row. In the meantime, you can use other search engines right here by using "bangs" So fun and straightforward.

Interesting how they insist that they use "so much more" than just Bing for their results, but the moment Bing goes down their search functionality is down entirely, unable to show a single result.

I believe that generally refers to all their custom answers, e.g. when you search for "weather ". Nevertheless, those don't seem to work either.

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Post by BirAdam »

pityJuke wrote: post #198
altdataseller wrote: post #149

Maybe 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.

Brave is genuinely impressive here in having their own index (granted, that’s the result of an acquisition rather than their own volition).

Yeah. I like Brave Search. In my own usage it seems to offer far more useful results rather than 5 pages of ads.

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Post by decremental »

zevv wrote: post #173
radiorental wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not distributed per se, but diversity makes a huge difference in resilience. When everybody is using the exact same tech, the fall out of an incident can be huge because it will affect everybody everywhere at the same time. Superficially it might seem efficient and smart, but the end result is fragility. Diversity of species is what nature ended up with as the ultimate solution: the individual species do not matter,…

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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by exikyut »

jraph wrote: post #183
us0r wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My money is on expired domain somewhere or security certificate.

A Windows update restarted a critical server automatically. A core service is blocked from starting by a Candy Crush ad installed by the update. The Crandy Crush ad is somehow expecting a Copilot key to be pressed on the keyboard to let the system keep going. MS engineers are waiting for an online purchase of a new $400 keyboard with the Copilot key to complete and planning to run to the data center to plug the keybo…

Very very technically, if RDP is enabled and working, this could be fixed by rdesktop-ing to the machine from a Linux box and using xdotool to experiment with typing raw keyboard scancodes through the RDP session in the hope you figure out the encoding of the Copilot key.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by blondie9x »

Is it just me or is search terribly broken on the internet.

It’s Google or Bing and Bing imposters.

Why aren’t there more broad search options? Search was better when we had page rank algorithms. It’s gotten over condensed into 2 companies.

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