Search engines down?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 258 points – 4 months ago

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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I hope Apple will finally allow custom search engines because the current workaround when wanting to use Kagi as default in iOS Safari is a shitty user experience (and I'm not blaming Kagi for that)

Lol wow. It is 2024 and apple still doesn't give you basic browser v1.0 functionality

I have never used iOS but I'd guess that makes browsing on it a little less convenient than on a terminal with curl.

You're implying that the first browser was curl? I don't think people called that a browser. And even if they did, they obviously weren't using it like we do now.

Obviously not the first but might win a "most basic browser currently maintained" competition if it qualifies (not if HTML rendering is a criterion).

I mean, it's an http client, I'll give you that, but I don't see how it could be considered a "browser" since all it handles is the server interaction