Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search
A massive Microsoft outage in some regions affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo.
https://searx.space/ Just pick an instance and you're good to go.
Btw If you are not sure which instance of searx to pick look for one with your country code.
First three search queries I did had zero results. Seems cool but not enough stuff indexed, I guess.
Perhaps a different instance will work?
They do not index stuff, searx only query's other search engines and compiles the results
You can go in to settings and select what search engines to pull from. The defaults on that instance may not be sufficient.
I cant seem to find where it says if api access is enabled. Or maybe i just messed up my lqngchain tool config
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.
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.
And nothing of value was lost
Except DDG doesn't search right now which is quite valuable
My serenity. Being forced to use Google.
search.brave.com is currently up and running.