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Then checking if my IP perhaps is blocked.
Nope, down in general, no search results
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
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
That's it, ddg is gone from my Firefox and hopefully from my browsing habits. Speaking about Firefox, it is insane how needlessly complicated it is to add new search engine to Firefox [1] 1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar 2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh 3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true val…
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
because not that many people use search engines other than google
it's a bit like sticking to using windows in 2010
While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.
You're supposed to get your information from big platforms exclusively, otherwise how would you be able to see all the nice ads and "curated activism"?
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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
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'm pretty surprised that I'm unable to find a dedicated status page for DDG - kinda horrible that I need to rely on twitter/reddit in order to know that they are having issues.
I'm also a little tickled by the fact that I need to search "Duck Duck Go status !g" in order to be directed to Google, because searching for DDGs status on DDG does not, well, work.