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DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK] (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Update: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-and-chatgpt-internet-search/

It's also important to note that ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are experiencing similar issues because they use the Bing API.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anything that uses Microsoft APIs is down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought Startpage uses Google?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's been using both for a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah I didn't know that! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Startpage web search uses google primarily and startpage mobile search uses bing primarily. That's why the mobile search was down but not the web search.

'Bing is our primary search provider for mobile.' https://www.reddit.com/r/StartpageSearch/comments/1c9z8iq/comment/l0wdd1o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

'For the time being, you could try using the desktop version on mobile and you should be able to get web results. Please note that you might still encounter issues with image results.' https://www.reddit.com/r/StartpageSearch/comments/1cymb9k/comment/l5aibax/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button