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Ask HN: What happened to DuckDuckGo?
No results found across range of queries. DId they nuke their database?
- teeray 8y agoAppears to be down as of this writing. All queries return no results, though autocomplete appears unaffected. No messaging on Twitter yet. Is anyone aware of a status page? Update: It's apparently a network outage: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1017095240581308417 https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1017095240581308417
- css 8y agoLooks like it's back: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1017101120597045249 https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1017101120597045249
- indigogo-com 8y agoIn console, they have some weird javascript error - "Uncaught TypeError: e.data.substr is not a function at post (post2.html:11)"
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- eindiran 8y agoI am able to run searches currently - all queries I have tried have returned results as expected. Perhaps the network outage is over.
- jolmg 8y ago> DId they nuke their database? As I understand it, they don't crawl the web and manage their own database of websites. They use Yahoo! for all their searches.
- dredmorbius 8y agoBing, Blekko, and others. https://duck.co/forum/comment/27893 https://duck.co/forum/comment/27893
- josefresco 8y agoInformation about DDG's sources: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources TLDR; Bing, Yahoo! and Yandex
- sp332 8y agoThey do have their own database. They have multiple sources, and they maintain their own spam lists.
- jolmg 8y agoIs there any reason for the downvotes on my post and the people who replied? I don't think being wrong means my post or its replies are inappropriate.
- kapauldo 8y agoOverly sensitive hall monitors looking for a fix.
- dredmorbius 8y agoSeems to have been a temporary glitch.
- ocfx 8y agoIt's not better than google
- singularity2001 8y agoThe autocomplete in general is abyssmal.