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nitpicking

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So I've been a science teacher, museum guide, freelance writer, software dev, software product manager, network admin, and for a long time now a business trainer. And I run SFF conventions.
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WorMP3, to DuckDuckGo
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Can someone tell me what is going on with ?

nitpicking,
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@WorMP3 Yes. In fact, the answer has already been posted dozens of times on Mastodon. The default DDG search uses Bing. Bing is down. DDG can't get any results. Neither can other Bing-dependent services like Ecosia.

jackyan, to DuckDuckGo
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Bingo! Or -go! , , , and down? I hope a ton of people are switching to @Mojeek today. https://mojeek.com

nitpicking,
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@jackyan @Mojeek Yahoo! is fine. It vampires Google results, not Bing.

sknob, to DuckDuckGo French
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startpage.com seems to be working.

startpage.com a l’air de fonctionner.

https://www.startpage.com/

nitpicking,
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@sknob Yeah, at last report Startpage was reselling Google results, as opposed to DDG reselling Bing.

robchapman, to random
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Dogpile is also down,

Why are these engines all tied to bloody Bing for heavens sake.

nitpicking,
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@robchapman Because it's cheap/free and clearly good enough, since so many people are using DDG.

The thing is, DDG can do Google searches with !g. Why couldn't it fail over to Google when Bing is down? (Answer: it could, but the developers didn't bother writing the 20 lines of code needed.)

masknerd, to random
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The good news is that @trishgreenhalgh, and many others wrote a great piece that highlights masks work. The bad news is that the laws of physics still work everywhere else too, especially those involving bicycles and immovable objects.

nitpicking,
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@masknerd
Damn. I'm so sorry to see that you're injured. It seems unlikely random internet denizens can help you, but let us know, OK?

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