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1y ago

Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

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Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

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Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

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https://searx.space/ Just pick an instance and you're good to go.
- First three search queries I did had zero results. Seems cool but not enough stuff indexed, I guess.
  
  They do not index stuff, searx only query's other search engines and compiles the results
  
  Perhaps a different instance will work?
  
  You can go in to settings and select what search engines to pull from. The defaults on that instance may not be sufficient.
- Btw If you are not sure which instance of searx to pick look for one with your country code.
why do all these search engines use Microsoft? do they have the same results as bing?
- Yes
- I think ddg has some self-baked stuff but also uses bing’s index for some stuff.
Oh, so that's what's going on. I noticed DDG added an AI chat service to their search page and I was so ready to blame that. Goes to show PR works on everybody.
And nothing of value was lost
- Except DDG doesn't search right now which is quite valuable
- My serenity. Being forced to use Google.
  
  I jumpped onto yandex lol
Ecosia too I think.
- Ecosia is working for me though
  
  It is now.
Seems to affect startpage too
- Hu? Isn’t it google API?
  
  Yeah, that's odd. I could swear Google had something in its terms that specified you couldn't mix its results with other search engines.
  
  Seems not, no.
Nature is healing, etc.

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