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

shish_mish@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 312 points –
Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search
bleepingcomputer.com
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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.

why do all these search engines use Microsoft? do they have the same results as bing?

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.

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.

And nothing of value was lost

Except DDG doesn't search right now which is quite valuable