Search engines down?

Ric0la@discuss.tchncs.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 258 points –

Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage... All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page...

Edit: it all seems to be related to bing being down. I hope the independent engines will find a way to get really independent...

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Seems to be related to bing using AI now...

https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/112489782242675124

Yet, DuckDuckGo and Startpage seem down, too. Even though DDG supposedly uses its own results, and SP supposedly is a FE for Google DDG uses Bing results and SP aggregates Google and Bing results

Has ddg ever really claimed to use its own index? I've always thought of it being a bing frontend

edit: Apparently start page pulls from Google and Bing (going off of this)