DuckDuckGo was down • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#81

Post by pixxel » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:36 AM UTC

Bing wrappers exposed.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#82

Post by the_70x » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:36 AM UTC

deliriumchn wrote: post #71

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #57

DuckDuckGo also is unable to provide search results, which seems to confirm they use Bing as a base for their searches.

Yes, they use bing https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...

DuckDuckGo is just a search proxy

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#83

Post by pooper » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:38 AM UTC

Kye wrote: post #75

DuckDuckNoGo

What makes me sad is that even the url decode function of duck duck go failed :(

I'd have thought at least that part would work.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by WhereIsTheTruth » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:40 AM UTC

voidUpdate wrote: post #74

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

NSA needs backup, when people wants to remain "private" ;)

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by pooper » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:40 AM UTC

__jonas wrote: post #79

farmdve wrote: post #69

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.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

I tried marginalia with site: for my blog.

> This website is not known to the search engine. To submit the website for crawling, follow these instructions.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by mrweasel » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:46 AM UTC

jmcnulty wrote: post #67

They're aware of the problem. https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1cynfft/duckduc...

It's disappointing that a "meeh" Reddit post is total sum of communication from Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and others.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by ColinHayhurst » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:47 AM UTC

farmdve wrote: post #69

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.

Mojeek, fully independent index. self-disclosure: CEO

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#88

Post by mgoetzke » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:47 AM UTC

WCSTombs wrote: post #41

CTOSian wrote: post #30

bing as well

Bing is up now, but DDG is still down.

down right now.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#89

Post by maelito » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:48 AM UTC

So, Kagi's not relying on Bing ?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#90

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:48 AM UTC

secondary_op wrote: post #48

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…

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