Ce qui me fume dans cette histoire de moteurs de recherche basés sur la technologie de #Bing (comme tout le reste de la plèbe j'ai découvert ça aujourd'hui), c'est que j'aurais jamais cru que les mecs qui ont conçu et ont persisté surtout, avec Internet Explorer pouvaient produire une techno suffisamment crédible pour qu'on veuille se reposer dessus.
Between the speech given where #Microsoft literally want to cloud base Windows (calling it Windows 365), the #AI "Callback" wife beater tool and #Bing AI eating the Bing API for half a day today almost the entire W11 subreddit seems up in arms. I have never seen so many "I am switching to #Linux" and "I am saving up for a #Mac" comments as today.
Bing and related search engines crashed today, because @Techaltar plugged Ecosia so hard in today's video, causing millions to suddenly switch, true story.
So it seems that #DuckDuckGo was down for the last few hours because of a #Bing outage. That's very annoying; DDG should probably get out from under Microsoft's coat tails...
While #DuckDuckGo is down, I tried out a few other search engines. I did a search I made yesterday in each. #Bing gave me an interesting looking blog first, then some less-related info from high-trust sources, then an interesting paper, then a bunch of garbage. #Mojeek gave me nothing that looked interesting, just pages that used some of the words from my search. #Kagi gave me the less-related high-trust sources first, then the entire rest of the first page looked interesting.
No AI and data privacy. Image search is a little rocky and it doesn't have maps, but I find it consistently better for straight web search results than DDG or Google.
🧵…dass nun die Probleme mit der Nutzung von der Suchmaschiene #Bing weitläufig ist hatte ich oben schon erwähnt, sogar ein Teil von populären #KI ist es ebenfalls:
»Microsoft – Bing-Probleme reißen #Copilot, #Duckduckgo und #ChatGPT-Suche in den Abgrund:
Seit Stunden sind all diese Dienste nicht erreichbar. #Microsofts eigene #Suchmaschine funktioniert wieder, jene, die sie indirekt verwenden, haben aber ein Problem«
🧵 …mal sehen wie den eben erwähnten Bing Problem eine positieve Auswirkung auf Europa hat. Ich hoffe die @openwebsearcheu von der @osf wird nicht neu erfunden und wird eine dezentrale Weiterentwicklung von den zwei oben erwähnten independent Open-Source Web-Suchmaschinen wie SearXNG und Stract.
@viennawriter@GossiTheDog@gabboman Agree. Calling #DuckDuckGo just a #Bing front-end is technically true but also it does add a lot of value on top acting as a privacy shield not letting #Microsoft track the users. I also like the features it provides on top like bangs, etc. Also hopes it builds its own index sometime. They say they have their own index but I doubt it as it was unable to return any results even for simple queries when Bing was down.