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Still is down - cannot access gmail, tried to Google the status page, then realised I'll have to use Bing for that. Surprised it still hasn't been resolved, th
by thecupisblue 1y ago
Still is down - cannot access gmail, tried to Google the status page, then realised I'll have to use Bing for that.
Surprised it still hasn't been resolved, the problems have been ongoing for 2 hours already.
Waiting for that post mortem, really interested in how this failed - I'd assume they have dozens of fallback scenarios ready.
- xandrius 1y ago[flagged]
- high_na_euv 1y agoDDG? it uses Bing under the hood
- ozgrakkurt 1y agoCouldn’t care less as long as It doesn’t sell my data to advertisers
- immibis 1y agoThere's no evidence that DDG doesn't. Of course, there's also no evidence that it does, which is still an improvement over the status quo.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- dr_kretyn 1y agoKagi doesn't seem to work for anything else than American content. At least, queries in non-english or about things unrelated to US culture brought close to nothing (relevant).
- zipping1549 1y agoThat's a bit different from my experience. I (although not very often) use Korean and it works ok-ish. It's far from being close to nothing though.
- dr_kretyn 1y agoThanks! In such a case maybe I need to play a bit more with it. My "nothing" was a bit harsh as "something" is sometimes returned; though, comparing results with even "Ecosia," the latter one always brings something more relevant. Simply, for me, working with Kagi for non-US queries felt like working with old search engines - a lot of work to make the query and a lot to browse results.
- flowerbreeze 1y agoKagi works for me in other languages, but only if I explicitly switch it from "International" to a specific country search. Otherwise it tends to default US results.
- ruszki 1y agoEven when you do that, it heavily prefers English content. Whenever I search for some hardware for example, there are several non country related results on the first page. The first 2-3 usually from the selected country, after that it’s not that great. When I search for “sony wh1000xm5” for example, then the first 2 are from Hungary, the 3rd are a generic English sony.com page, the 4th from the country, all the others is in English and not related to the selected country at all. Austria is a little bit better, it still has generic English results, but mostly it just ignores the differences between Germany and Austria. It’s a huge pain point when you want to buy something.
- alex7o 1y agoI live in Bulgaria and even google is pretty bad at this, however adding the Bulgarian word for price at the end of it always worked for me both in kagi and in google
- larodi 1y agoKagi was definitely also not accessible. Certain services (including Google) were accessible via CF VPN, perhaps other VPN offerings also.