If you're using #DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, this might be a good day to try https://www.mojeek.com/ (if you're Sussex based, they're a local company.)
🧵 …ach guck, nun ist es in der Presse, was ich vorhin oben erwähnte mit den Hinweis zu nutzbaren Alternativen (nicht Google!):
»Bing, DuckDuckGo und weitere Suchmaschine nicht erreichbar:
Einige Suchmaschinen, die nicht Google sind, funktionieren derzeit nicht. Betroffen sind Bing, DuckDuckGo und Ecosia.«
Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too
"In this particular case, it’s interesting to see the increasingly important role of Bing’s API. While Google still dominates when it comes to web search, many services are now reliant on Bing’s API."
Relying on one company doesn't seem like a smart idea.
#DuckDuckGo going down again (#HugOps to everyone there) has really reminded my how much my unconscious workflow depends on a search engine these days.
To set a search engine as your default, visit the site and right click the URL bar, and select add. Then change your default in settings.
(Firefox will add it as an option in the default engines in settings. Chrome will open settings with it as an "inactive shortcut" which you can "make default" in the entry's menu.)
"A global outage is affecting a variety of Microsoft services, including its Bing search engine and Copilot AI tool.
Users turned to social media on Thursday to complain about the outage, which is also impacting third parties, including the search engine DuckDuckGo, which relies on Microsoft’s infrastructure."
Ne du, so was wie #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage & #Ecosia liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie #Bing (M$) und/oder #Google. Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.