EDIT: looks like they’re back.
yes, everyone on earth.
Bing API is down, which has killed some things.
I thought Startpage used Google, not Bing?
Microsoft’s Bing API services (the source of DuckDuckGo’s search data) went down at approx 3am ET and has not yet returned to service. Bing, DuckDuckGo, CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.
Yes. It even interrupted a flashing procedure of a device of mine and almost bricked it
How does a search engine being offline interrupt a device flashing?
Its quite embarrassing you’ve asked this, tbh. Obviously you’ve never run
dd if=$(while :; do curl bing.com/q=$RANDOM; done) of=/dev/sda1and I think that’s sad.
Holy fuckshits. You crazy motherfucker.
Time to ditch duckduckBing
Why? Because it is down or because you just noticed that is is basicly just a Bing-Proxy?
Probably because it’s down. I for one am surprised they have no failover for when Bing goes down.
I’m more surprised bing doesn’t have a fail over for whenever bing goes down.
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