DuckDuckGo was down • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by n_ary » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:19 AM UTC

My conspiracy mind tells me, may be bing changed their search api with breaking changes or suddenly introduced massive billing(think Twitter API, reddit API et al.) hence all search-engines pulled an immediate break without having time to fix/update.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by mrweasel » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:19 AM UTC

alentred wrote: post #14

https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment. Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.

The lack of status pages is annoying. Neither Bing, Ecosia or DuckDuckGo have one.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by pierrebeucher » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:24 AM UTC

CTOSian wrote: post #30

bing as well

Same problem, encountering similar problems with Qwant (though not always)

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by hi-v-rocknroll » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:29 AM UTC

Yup. Maybe it's a NS, LB, or IPv6 only problem because it works eventually.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by Iulioh » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:30 AM UTC

pcvarmint wrote: post #26

kuro_neko wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it vary by region? Mine works fine for bing.

Bing is sluggish but seems to work sometimes now. I wonder if it's a DDoS attack on Bing.

....can you really DDoS Bing?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by 256_ » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:30 AM UTC

n_ary wrote: post #29

secondary_op wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presume that duckduckgo is not private or otherwise compromised. For example many things I search trough duckduckgo later that day showed up in my twitter/x.com algorithmic feed, coincidence ? don't think so.

Or it could be that, when you search something, you also click through to some of the results, where FB/AdWords and other trackers are present. Alternatively, there was a fallacy of human mind(forgot the name), where if you think of something, your brain will start focusing on the random occurrences of that things in all places. So, those ads were always there, your brain just started focusing suddenly on those as yo…

It's called the Baader-Meinhof effect.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by nirse » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:32 AM UTC

Is it just me, or has DDG been having trouble often lately? Or is it just a combination with some outage + degradation of search results lately that makes me g! regularly these days? Didn't use to need that.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by blackeyeblitzar » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:33 AM UTC

Ecosia is also down. I think all of these use Bing under the covers? If it is actually a Bing problem, it is pretty incredible that MS has an outage this long. Makes me think twice about the stability of Azure.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by whitehat33 » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:34 AM UTC

DDG Site responds, but gives and error and is not showing search results.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by pluto_modadic » Thu, May 23, 2024, 7:36 AM UTC

Hmmm... Is having a status page a sign of engineering maturity?