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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? DuckDuck
by mrweasel 2y ago
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.
- beretguy 2y agoI kind of hope it’s something to do with AI, like, I don’t know, AI coming to conclusion that internet is bad for humanity and so it’s trying to shut down a search engine, or something mildly dystopian like that.
- beAbU 2y agoI went looking for a DDG status page this morning before seeing this link on HN. Google found a tweet from them earlier today with an announcement [1] 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. 1 - https://x.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1793557968027570527 https://x.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1793557968027570527
- mrweasel 2y agoThat statement in that tweet is also strange, but it's the same for Qwant and Ecosia now. I wonder if they are contractually not allowed to state that there are issues with Bing, or if others are correct in that they really don't want to be to public about the Bing dependency.
- ricardo81 2y agoBecause DDG markets itself as privacy focused, yet is hosted on MS servers. Ecosia make a lot about their green credentials but it's not obvious if they factor in the CO2 output of what Bing requires to product results.