[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage?
screenshot of searching “test” in start page that doesn’t return any results
EDIT: looks like they’re back.
Tywele, I was wondering why Ecosia didn’t give me any search results yesterday. Well, now I know.
TheAnonymouseJoker, I noticed it starting months ago with Startpage, and yesterday with DuckDuckGo. Always fall back to Searx. And since I know the former two are just Google/Bing proxies, I NEVER search anything on them that may be questionable or shady or can be judgemental in the future.
geography082, Ahhhh my self hosted SearXNG is inmune HA!
possiblylinux127, Its a known issue
Jumuta, startpage was fine for me
classic, It seemed to be out last night for me. Came up with no results for some really basic searches
electro1, 
why don’t they just build their own indexer and AI crawler… Brave is newer yet surpassed both of them
Scolding0513, yes, this is why I love Brave search! the only privacy search engine with their own indexer.
Tangent5280, shill harder somewhere else
Scolding0513, cry harder somewhere else
kionite231, But why? DDG isn’t that private either!
Tangent5280, correct, but brave is not only shittier, but it is also an active saboteur to the cause.
QuentinCallaghan, 
Yes I had. DuckDuckGo was crippled as Bing was down today.
ZeroHora, 
It’s back now.
kbal, 
Somebody really Binged it up.
Scolding0513, Bingus
eager_eagle, 
Bingus Duckus
Scolding0513, Biggus Dickus…
“Send him to the lions”
0xtero, This is the moment in Scooby-Doo where the gang unmasks the person they’ve just caught and underneath is just the Microsoft Bing logo
land, 
Time to ditch duckduckBing
WreckingBANG, Why? Because it is down or because you just noticed that is is basicly just a Bing-Proxy?
Redacted, 
Probably because it’s down. I for one am surprised they have no failover for when Bing goes down.
Crack0n7uesday, I’m more surprised bing doesn’t have a fail over for whenever bing goes down.
land, It’s my backup search engine. I use Brave and Searx as the main search engines.
jjlinux, An individual with cultural galore over here. Great choices.
XTL, www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
Brave is a series scammer. Always has been, always will be.
land, Brave search* sorry for the confusion. I use floorp as my main browser.
TranquilTurbulence, Nah, just switched to searx for a day, and came back once DDG was up again.
GolfNovemberUniform, 
Yes. It even interrupted a flashing procedure of a device of mine and almost bricked it
InnerScientist, How does a search engine being offline interrupt a device flashing?
GolfNovemberUniform, Idk why it happened. Maybe the program uses that API to find new firmware versions. It was stuck at the beginning of the procedure
tetris11, 
Its quite embarrassing you’ve asked this, tbh. Obviously you’ve never run
<span style="color:#323232;">dd if=$(while :; do curl bing.com/q=$RANDOM; done) of=/dev/sda1 </span>and I think that’s sad.
possiblylinux127, I want to do this now
invisiblegorilla, Holy fuckshits. You crazy motherfucker.
ashaman2007, Is this secure drive erasure 🤔🤔🤔
kionite231, Saving it!
possiblylinux127, Wait what?
GolfNovemberUniform, The flashing app detected the device. The next step was downloading firmware and it was stuck on it for minutes (usually it takes a second or two). I almost ended up rebooting the device (which could absolutely brick it) but fortunately it found the firmware. Then I tested DDG to see if it was up. I don’t really remember if it was but I think it was working for a few seconds
possiblylinux127, Why was it pulling firmware from Bing? That’s seems strange
AbidingOhmsLaw, Microsoft’s Bing API services (the source of DuckDuckGo’s search data) went down at approx 3am ET and has not yet returned to service. Bing, DuckDuckGo, CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.
Jumuta, huh, I thought ddg had its own indexer?
RmDebArc_5, 
Only for the instant answers. The regular results are all bing
floofloof, Ecosia was affected too. It’s Bing with trees.
pineapplelover, Thought it was google with trees
ExtremeDullard, 
CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.
That’s sad, since one would logically expect any AI to get better if it loses access to Bing search results.
DerisionConsulting, yes, everyone on earth.
Bing API is down, which has killed some things.
Scolding0513, I thought Startpage used Google, not Bing?
tostiman, 
Yeah, me too
Treachery4524, This definitely makes me confused. I thought their whole thing was that they were a proxy for google results??
Scolding0513, maybe they use both,or maybe Bing was cheaper now
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