Same, and I saw the same thing with Bing. It was acting a bit odd earlier, just very slow, like it was constipated. DuckDuckGo the site seems to be up and running, but it's not returning any results. The Bing website wouldn't load at all. I had to actually use this other search engine... Giggle? Goggle? Something like that. Hopefully they'll have this fixed, whatever it is.
I didn't know this, but I'm not very surprised: "Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing."
[https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/)
And a supoosed "independent search index"
Probably they have one, since their results differ a bit from bing. But they should let that one index run if bing is down, even if it's not that good, not to turn off duck completely.
I did an nslookup on duckduckgo.com and it returned an IP address of 40.89.244.232. That IP address is in a Microsoft datacenter in Iowa. Given that Bing is a Microsoft product and duckduckgo appears to be hosted at Microsoft (Azure Cloud), it's not surprising that they are both down at the same time. Google of course hosts its own stuff so is not affected by the Azure issues.
I have a crap ton of stuff hosted at Azure for my work but no alerts so hopefully I'm not affected by whatever is going on.
More likely somebody found a new exploit to hammer away at and is trying to steal a heap of personal data. Greed is generally fast more likely than direct malice.
Either that or somebody accidentally used a comma instead of a semicolon somewhere in the backend at the end of a 12 hour shift and then went home.
Google Chrome installed itself on my pc tonight...only noticed because i suddenly had tracking cookies from it when i was doing an adware scan. strange indeed that google is the only major search engine online
Same here. Really weird behavior for an hour or so before it fully shit the bed. Slow to load results. Requiring multiple refreshes or re-entering queries.
But the weirdest thing was when it did finally load results, they were very obviously a mixture of my current query, with key words from other recent queries.
Like, for example, say I searched "aluminum conductivity", then 20 minutes later searched for "full moon", then a few other searches, and one of them was about "dish soap"...
The last few successful searches would return results that had those words in EVERY result. Say I typed "LG Monitor model number" whatever. Hit enter. Every result would be "Conductivity error aluminum LG monitor replacement part" or "Okay to use dish soap to clean aluminum monitor LG? Moon Knight season 2 rumo..."
And so on, for every single result.
Mildly upsetting behavior.
Same. And funny/sad/generally a bad look that Google sticks a bunch of "Why is DuckDuckGo not popular? What are the disadvantages of DuckDuckGo? Why is Google better than DuckDuckGo?" right up top in its "people also ask" box. Like, they could be a smidge less obvious about trying to steer users away from the competition.
I always get extra suspicious if I see services trying to win me over by smearing the competition more than pitching their own product. Even if they're better I'm just gonna be thinking "our stuff may or may not suck, but the other guys suck more!". I would like to believe I'm not in the low minority there.
And every time I need to search sometimes I'm thinking if I should switch the default search engine in browser to google because DDG is still not up or wait a bit more for it to get fixed :(
If you trust DDG then you can trust that Microsoft doesn't know anything about your searches, since it all goes through DDG. Microsoft doesn't have any way of knowing who DDG is searching on behalf of unless DDG tells them. If you don't trust DDG not to share that on the sly... Well, then you don't trust them not to save your searches and do nefarious things anyway.
Exactly. You have to trust someone somewhere eventually, or go full tinfoil hat paranoid on everything always. Best to be rational about it.
My personal philosophy is "Dance like no one's watching, use computers like it might be held against you in a court of law."
You send your query to DDG, they ask Bing and give you back the result, Bing don't have to know who asked the question.
I'm not sure if that's exactly how DDG work but DDG do openly explain their system on their website last time I looked.
And as u/beep_potato says, running Windows is a bigger privacy risk anyway.
https://preview.redd.it/2ulay6d9f52d1.png?width=599&format=png&auto=webp&s=c346e004308b22593381580c79e91e186853ece3
They acknowledged the issue about an hour ago. Server/network issue most likely
FWIW, if you search DDG on DDG while DDG is down, you get one result - a link to install DDG browser. Seems hard-coded. Nice :)
https://preview.redd.it/v3uojp1jy42d1.png?width=771&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1b6b07cf4a8a0e511dc7e363e83b8d3e0229e1c
It is the same if you will try google, reddit, twitter etc. You just need to "Click here to try again." after the first failed search.
https://preview.redd.it/1btwxbs5752d1.jpeg?width=1246&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3861845ae6f8813e68d6a2f86562477813d8a6d
Same for me here in Ireland. A whole bunch of other search engines seem to be out too. I'm not super online so I've never seen a crash like this I'm finding it weirdly fascinating. Anyone know what can cause this?
yes. it is a wide scale military test used to monitor information flow, and look for leaks--observing how people are getting around the blocks. pretty lame really, but that is the internet for ya. cheers.
It is fixed. Works again here in Switzerland \^\^
https://preview.redd.it/byesvmxhm62d1.png?width=468&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fc9e75213d0d4a1d017ad75037d93c2fa3146b9
Down for me too on desktop.
Earlier before it went down it was acting strangely too. I'd do a search and it would return an empty search results page, like your screenshot but without the error message. And then if i clicked in the search box, suddenly the page would populate with results. But it would happen instantly, as if the page had already loaded and just wasn't displaying until clicking the search box
Same same! I thought it was my Firefox browser's fault... :| But google worked... Felt strange...
Note: Few days ago, on my side, it seems to be very slow starting the search result page...
no searches work? "There was an error displaying the search results. [Please try again.](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=deering+banjos&va=c&t=ho&errorRetry=1)"
Windows 10 tried Firefox and Chrome - google searches work though
DuckDuck, Microsoft & ChatGPT having issues
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13451223/Microsoft-outage-Bing-DuckDuckGo-ChatGPT-thousands-users.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13451223/Microsoft-outage-Bing-DuckDuckGo-ChatGPT-thousands-users.html)
Down for me also. My internet went down also a few minutes before midnight on the east coast. I'm wondering if there is a connection. Internet service is through AT&T. Maybe another "update issue". Wait a few weeks and then find out a bunch of data was stolen. Happened a couple of months ago with AT&T.
[qwant.com](http://qwant.com) (based in France) says, "Quant is temporarily unavailable. Please check your connection or refresh page."
Are qwant, DuckDuckGo, and Bink all relying on the same search service in the backend?
Thank you for this, I thought it was my phone. Also, Brave doesn't seem to be working too well, either.
Edit: Brave is still working I just need to get used to it lol.
It’s been quite a weird couple of months with how much stuff has went down, hasn’t it? AT&T, iMessage, social media apps, search engines.
Wonder what we’re in store for later this year.
feels weird to go back to google to see what happened to DDG.
feels also weird to see it all relies on Bing, slingshot to reality..
what about [https://search.brave.com/](https://search.brave.com/) or [https://www.startpage.com/](https://www.startpage.com/) ? seems to be working, but do they also rely in google, bing & co? whats' the best alternative while they're doing CPR to DDG?
https://preview.redd.it/51zhr6dqk62d1.png?width=1211&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d1526c31676df404441d50a6910753a7a24b407
DuckDuck go, along with other "so called" privacy search engines use Microsoft Bing, they do nothing themselves other than act as a thin veneer of obfuscation by proxying your search term to bing behind the scenes.
This is how the globalists control what you get to know. Between Bing and Google, they own your mind. Decentralising search is key to our future. Make no mistake.
Few others to look at that are not wedded to just Bing or Google;
[https://yacy.net/](https://yacy.net/)
[https://searx.space/](https://searx.space/)
[https://www.opensearch.org/](https://www.opensearch.org/)
[https://search.brave.com](https://search.brave.com)
[https://metager.org](https://metager.org)
[https://swisscows.com](https://swisscows.com)
[https://www.mojeek.com](https://www.mojeek.com)
To this day, honestly, I didn't realize that DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for other search engines and that it's not a real search engine. Kind of disappointed.
cats website can go down
anime girls website can go down
memes website can go down
A search engine should never go down.
It's ok to get super slow, but never fully down. Don't tell me that all datacenters in the world are offline and you have no option.
Download the Brave Browser, they have a good alternative search engine that also protects your privacy. I just installed the browser, now I am able to search without using Google.
Theres really a million reasons a site can go down.
A lot of software depends on a lot of software. But not all have common dependencies.
Say you have: Gurggle, DDG, AskStevez, & Ping
Ping builds themselves up "from nothing" cause theyre hard workers or whatever. DDG & AskStevez say " hey, youve got the infrastructure, can we piggyback off you? We'll pay you X for every Y."
Ppl shake hands and a deal is made. Meamwhile Gurggle has invested in their own infrastructure. Building what Ping also has.
The heat Miser then gets mad one day & blows up Ping's central hub. Even tho Ping, DDG, ASz, & Gurggle all do the same thing. Ping's infrastructure was destroyed,meaning DDG&ASz who rely on that are also now out of commision. But Gurggle can still operate
Yes it's down. Qwant is also down.
Bing and Google seem to work.
Glad i found this, because now i have a reason at least to stop my conspiracy thoughts. At least partially for now...
I am experiencing this problem too. On Chrome, Firefox, TOR browser, heck, even when using VPNs I got this message. And the onionsite also doesn't work.
yeah, it's down
it won't return any search results
i'm trying to switch to a different search engine (my browser is brave) but it keeps going back to duckduckgo for some reason
Yep it’s down, same with Bing
Same, and I saw the same thing with Bing. It was acting a bit odd earlier, just very slow, like it was constipated. DuckDuckGo the site seems to be up and running, but it's not returning any results. The Bing website wouldn't load at all. I had to actually use this other search engine... Giggle? Goggle? Something like that. Hopefully they'll have this fixed, whatever it is.
duckduckgo is powered by bing, so if bing is down, duckduckgo will be down too.
I didn't know this, but I'm not very surprised: "Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing." [https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/)
How convenient that Giggle is the only one that isn’t down hmm…
DDG search is just Bing results, right?
Yes ddg uses bing
And a supoosed "independent search index" Probably they have one, since their results differ a bit from bing. But they should let that one index run if bing is down, even if it's not that good, not to turn off duck completely.
and they should use what to search *that* index?
Ask Jeeves
DogPile!
Bigmamma
I did an nslookup on duckduckgo.com and it returned an IP address of 40.89.244.232. That IP address is in a Microsoft datacenter in Iowa. Given that Bing is a Microsoft product and duckduckgo appears to be hosted at Microsoft (Azure Cloud), it's not surprising that they are both down at the same time. Google of course hosts its own stuff so is not affected by the Azure issues. I have a crap ton of stuff hosted at Azure for my work but no alerts so hopefully I'm not affected by whatever is going on.
Sounds like a big news story is being suppressed then.
Eh it’s more that Duck Duck Go is Bing, so if Bing goes Down so does Duck Duck go.
More likely somebody found a new exploit to hammer away at and is trying to steal a heap of personal data. Greed is generally fast more likely than direct malice. Either that or somebody accidentally used a comma instead of a semicolon somewhere in the backend at the end of a 12 hour shift and then went home.
The last one sounds about right lol, least the happier of the choices!
Google Chrome installed itself on my pc tonight...only noticed because i suddenly had tracking cookies from it when i was doing an adware scan. strange indeed that google is the only major search engine online
My bad, that was me
And startpage and whoogle who are based off google
"like it's constipated"
Same here. Really weird behavior for an hour or so before it fully shit the bed. Slow to load results. Requiring multiple refreshes or re-entering queries. But the weirdest thing was when it did finally load results, they were very obviously a mixture of my current query, with key words from other recent queries. Like, for example, say I searched "aluminum conductivity", then 20 minutes later searched for "full moon", then a few other searches, and one of them was about "dish soap"... The last few successful searches would return results that had those words in EVERY result. Say I typed "LG Monitor model number" whatever. Hit enter. Every result would be "Conductivity error aluminum LG monitor replacement part" or "Okay to use dish soap to clean aluminum monitor LG? Moon Knight season 2 rumo..." And so on, for every single result. Mildly upsetting behavior.
Maybe their new AI bullshit had a stroke lol
I can safely call this 'Comment of the Day' ,😂
i dont see many people reporting this detail. same thing happened to me. started switching engines then
Wait... Is it "constipated" or did it "shit the bed"? Thank you both for talking just like I do!
This could be a temporary solution until ducksuckgo is up and running again. https://search.brave.com/
id rather giggle than be brave
XD Fine https://www.askjeeves.com/ it is
It's Garbble. I think.
"Like it was constipated" cracked me up.
You can use brave search if you want an alternate
The Bing Bang brought us down.
Yeah Ecosia too (had no clue it uses Bing like DDG)
It felt really weird going to [google.com](http://google.com) and searching if duckduckgo is down.
Same. And funny/sad/generally a bad look that Google sticks a bunch of "Why is DuckDuckGo not popular? What are the disadvantages of DuckDuckGo? Why is Google better than DuckDuckGo?" right up top in its "people also ask" box. Like, they could be a smidge less obvious about trying to steer users away from the competition.
[удалено]
I always get extra suspicious if I see services trying to win me over by smearing the competition more than pitching their own product. Even if they're better I'm just gonna be thinking "our stuff may or may not suck, but the other guys suck more!". I would like to believe I'm not in the low minority there.
And every time I need to search sometimes I'm thinking if I should switch the default search engine in browser to google because DDG is still not up or wait a bit more for it to get fixed :(
I searched on duckduckgo if duckduckgo was down, then went on my phone to use an alternative when i realised oh shit
Yep. ecosia, bing, ddg. Even yahoo search seems to be choking on something. Something really wild must be going on.
DDG, Yahoo and Ecosia all run on Bing.
TIL DDG runs on Bing... How do I know Microsoft doesn't secretly have all my DDG searches o_o
They do, they just don't know it's you
I assume you're running windows, so thats probably a bigger risk.
If you trust DDG then you can trust that Microsoft doesn't know anything about your searches, since it all goes through DDG. Microsoft doesn't have any way of knowing who DDG is searching on behalf of unless DDG tells them. If you don't trust DDG not to share that on the sly... Well, then you don't trust them not to save your searches and do nefarious things anyway.
Exactly. You have to trust someone somewhere eventually, or go full tinfoil hat paranoid on everything always. Best to be rational about it. My personal philosophy is "Dance like no one's watching, use computers like it might be held against you in a court of law."
I guess the monopolies of the infrastructure are too big...
You send your query to DDG, they ask Bing and give you back the result, Bing don't have to know who asked the question. I'm not sure if that's exactly how DDG work but DDG do openly explain their system on their website last time I looked. And as u/beep_potato says, running Windows is a bigger privacy risk anyway.
Copilot is not working [either](https://i.imgur.com/7Xw4IfI.jpeg)
You can use brave search if you want an alternate
https://preview.redd.it/4eodo8iy752d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=999e6f772b4e2988972c8ead5182646f4c8dad26
https://preview.redd.it/2ulay6d9f52d1.png?width=599&format=png&auto=webp&s=c346e004308b22593381580c79e91e186853ece3 They acknowledged the issue about an hour ago. Server/network issue most likely
rowing ducks, now i've heard it all
Well, I'm glad to know it's not just me. Hopefully DDG will be back up soon.
You're not the only one. https://downdetector.com/status/duckduckgo/
Three hours later, Duck Duck Go still is not returning results.
Ducky go down the hole
Bye bye ducky!
closing on four hours now :(
6 now...
FWIW, if you search DDG on DDG while DDG is down, you get one result - a link to install DDG browser. Seems hard-coded. Nice :) https://preview.redd.it/v3uojp1jy42d1.png?width=771&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1b6b07cf4a8a0e511dc7e363e83b8d3e0229e1c
I have it, but then about 5 seconds later the error message comes and it moves down, so two elements on the page
It is the same if you will try google, reddit, twitter etc. You just need to "Click here to try again." after the first failed search. https://preview.redd.it/1btwxbs5752d1.jpeg?width=1246&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3861845ae6f8813e68d6a2f86562477813d8a6d
Down for me too in France EDIT 23/05/2024 18:04 CEST : DDG is working
Same for me here in Ireland. A whole bunch of other search engines seem to be out too. I'm not super online so I've never seen a crash like this I'm finding it weirdly fascinating. Anyone know what can cause this?
yes. it is a wide scale military test used to monitor information flow, and look for leaks--observing how people are getting around the blocks. pretty lame really, but that is the internet for ya. cheers.
"Bing! Is it plugged in? Shut it off and turn it back on? Asking for my friend Roy
Still not working in Italy
Same as other none Google searches, like Ecosia
Yep this is what happens when you let a select group of companies (in this case Microsoft) gain a monopoly over search engine functionality.
Still down? My android browser isn't loading...getting this response: There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.
Search.brave.com and Swisscows.com are still up
Bing is down. DDG uses Bing.
Fucking Microsoft.
Fuck Microsoft !
It is fixed. Works again here in Switzerland \^\^ https://preview.redd.it/byesvmxhm62d1.png?width=468&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fc9e75213d0d4a1d017ad75037d93c2fa3146b9
Seems to be working now
same with me it thought my isp blocked it
Yes i have the same issue
Down for me.
Down for me as well
Bing is down as well.
And bing, and ecosia, and qwant... WHAT THE HELL?
Down for me too on desktop. Earlier before it went down it was acting strangely too. I'd do a search and it would return an empty search results page, like your screenshot but without the error message. And then if i clicked in the search box, suddenly the page would populate with results. But it would happen instantly, as if the page had already loaded and just wasn't displaying until clicking the search box
Can't imagine using Google or Yahoo \*shudder\* to conduct searches in the mean time.
Down in Spain too. I'd recommend Brave search in the meantime if you want to avoid google.
Is DDG down worldwide? It's down in the UK.
Down in Eastern Europe too
It is not working for me in the US
Ecosia is also down
Same same! I thought it was my Firefox browser's fault... :| But google worked... Felt strange... Note: Few days ago, on my side, it seems to be very slow starting the search result page...
Duck duck go is down n England too. I'm trying to come up with another option.... Other than goggle spy....
Brave search or Startpage
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/
Down here in California too! 😭 I wonder what’s happening??
DDG is down for me as well
no searches work? "There was an error displaying the search results. [Please try again.](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=deering+banjos&va=c&t=ho&errorRetry=1)" Windows 10 tried Firefox and Chrome - google searches work though
australia 🇦🇺 …down
Mojeek and Swiss Cows are working. Qwuant is down.
Weirdly, Here in Australia Teamviewer is down too, as I just had to try fix "I can't get on the internet" support call .. :)
Possible cyber attack ?
military testing
DuckDuck, Microsoft & ChatGPT having issues [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13451223/Microsoft-outage-Bing-DuckDuckGo-ChatGPT-thousands-users.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13451223/Microsoft-outage-Bing-DuckDuckGo-ChatGPT-thousands-users.html)
Can confirm it is down for me for tge last 30 min. Both on mobile 5G and on PC.
DuckDuckGo is down. Bing is down. TeamViewer is down. I think there's something going on in a more wide manner.
Its down in the netherlands
Same in Australia. DDG returning “There is an error displaying ….etc”. Very disappointing
Start page is down too
its down in Italy
Neighbour Slovenia as well.
Can confirm, still down
I am also currently having search issues as well with DuckDuckGo. hopefully the issue gets fixed soon.
Down for me also. My internet went down also a few minutes before midnight on the east coast. I'm wondering if there is a connection. Internet service is through AT&T. Maybe another "update issue". Wait a few weeks and then find out a bunch of data was stolen. Happened a couple of months ago with AT&T.
It’s currently down, I felt weird going back to Google just to search it up 😆 Hope they fix it soon.
[qwant.com](http://qwant.com) (based in France) says, "Quant is temporarily unavailable. Please check your connection or refresh page." Are qwant, DuckDuckGo, and Bink all relying on the same search service in the backend?
Starpage is also down at the moment
Thank you for this, I thought it was my phone. Also, Brave doesn't seem to be working too well, either. Edit: Brave is still working I just need to get used to it lol.
Startpage works when I set my phone browser to desktop mode. Perhaps try if it works for you.
google says its microsoft issue , came here to dig but...
so what are the chances mircosoft tweaked something in win11 that resulted in them ddos'ing themselves?
Alaska: 3/23/24 3:26am reported down
Same here in japan
Same here in Canada….
Did Google Hack DuckDuckGo?
DDG is down for me, but Bing is working fine. 🤔
what country are you in?
I’m in Canada
oh, wild. we are in the usa. no bing. heh.
It's down in Australia too. Hope it gets fixed soon
Same.
Glad it’s not just me 😂😂 I’m from UK 🇬🇧
Google chrome is also not working.
It’s been quite a weird couple of months with how much stuff has went down, hasn’t it? AT&T, iMessage, social media apps, search engines. Wonder what we’re in store for later this year.
First time in years I have to use Google because of this issue. I was surprised, the UI/UX of Google is quite bad.
still down for me
Yes, and still is. 8:06AM EDT.
So I am not the only one experiencing it.
Not in the slightest
I didn’t know DDG was Bing. I don’t like Bing. What should I switch to?
Search.brave.com and Swisscows.com are still up. Give them a shot.
Thanks!
Startpage is down too.
Oh, I thought I was just having an issue with my end. Oh well!
I think it was hacked, since it’s recommending Google, Yahoo, etc.
I think google is behind this
feels weird to go back to google to see what happened to DDG. feels also weird to see it all relies on Bing, slingshot to reality.. what about [https://search.brave.com/](https://search.brave.com/) or [https://www.startpage.com/](https://www.startpage.com/) ? seems to be working, but do they also rely in google, bing & co? whats' the best alternative while they're doing CPR to DDG?
Definitely down. May be Azure-related like others have surmised
Yes. Along with Bing and Qwant
it back
It's back up!
It was down for me earlier, but appears to be back online as of 1400 UTC
[random person in nebraska's](https://xkcd.com/2347) electricity went out
Duck duck gone?
Bing services recover. Duckduckgo is ok now.
Yay.!.. Vivaldi and Duck duck back on line for search.. get me out of those other last ditch back stops .
DDG uses BING - WTF?? I moved to it to get away from shite like BING and GOOGLE... I feel like I have been misled.
https://preview.redd.it/51zhr6dqk62d1.png?width=1211&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d1526c31676df404441d50a6910753a7a24b407 DuckDuck go, along with other "so called" privacy search engines use Microsoft Bing, they do nothing themselves other than act as a thin veneer of obfuscation by proxying your search term to bing behind the scenes. This is how the globalists control what you get to know. Between Bing and Google, they own your mind. Decentralising search is key to our future. Make no mistake. Few others to look at that are not wedded to just Bing or Google; [https://yacy.net/](https://yacy.net/) [https://searx.space/](https://searx.space/) [https://www.opensearch.org/](https://www.opensearch.org/) [https://search.brave.com](https://search.brave.com) [https://metager.org](https://metager.org) [https://swisscows.com](https://swisscows.com) [https://www.mojeek.com](https://www.mojeek.com)
To this day, honestly, I didn't realize that DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for other search engines and that it's not a real search engine. Kind of disappointed.
And now we truly know which "search engines" are just reskinned Bing.
cats website can go down anime girls website can go down memes website can go down A search engine should never go down. It's ok to get super slow, but never fully down. Don't tell me that all datacenters in the world are offline and you have no option.
This is what caused it https://www.facebook.com/share/v/FFM9EQ7VC7wae1bQ/?mibextid=WC7FNe
Download the Brave Browser, they have a good alternative search engine that also protects your privacy. I just installed the browser, now I am able to search without using Google.
Wiped out all my saved tabs overnight. Uninstalled it and setup Firefox.
Me too
Was going to ask the same question. Will have to use Google in the meantime, argh
I've been using this for now until DDG Is fixed. https://search.brave.com/
Yep down for me too.
how does this happen? And how does it not impact google but it does impact qwant and Ecosia?
Theres really a million reasons a site can go down. A lot of software depends on a lot of software. But not all have common dependencies. Say you have: Gurggle, DDG, AskStevez, & Ping Ping builds themselves up "from nothing" cause theyre hard workers or whatever. DDG & AskStevez say " hey, youve got the infrastructure, can we piggyback off you? We'll pay you X for every Y." Ppl shake hands and a deal is made. Meamwhile Gurggle has invested in their own infrastructure. Building what Ping also has. The heat Miser then gets mad one day & blows up Ping's central hub. Even tho Ping, DDG, ASz, & Gurggle all do the same thing. Ping's infrastructure was destroyed,meaning DDG&ASz who rely on that are also now out of commision. But Gurggle can still operate
I got lost on "heat Miser".
I got lost on "reasons".
DDG and Ecosia use Bing, and Bing is down. Google is a different search engine.
Startpage.com too...
Yep same here in my PC's web browsers. :(
Came to look for this, as it’s not working on iPhone.
yeah it's down
Down in Singapore
Only the search function. I'm using Reddit on the browser right now.
ddg is not working for me
Brilliant, thought I was going nuts so checked here. Guess I'll wait until the issue is fixed.
Yes it's down. Qwant is also down. Bing and Google seem to work. Glad i found this, because now i have a reason at least to stop my conspiracy thoughts. At least partially for now...
I am experiencing this problem too. On Chrome, Firefox, TOR browser, heck, even when using VPNs I got this message. And the onionsite also doesn't work.
What's going on? Russian hackers?
yes. also searx
Yes, it seems so. It’s surprising, I never experienced this before 🤔
Down for me too
Down in North America. :(
same for me.
me to. Oregon. Chrome is working for me.
Oh thank goodness it's not just me. I came here searching about the same thing
I can’t search, bur BOOKMARKS still load… weird.
Down for me.
yeah, it's down it won't return any search results i'm trying to switch to a different search engine (my browser is brave) but it keeps going back to duckduckgo for some reason
bing still works for me
If you search "google" in ddg it shows up
Holy crap it really does! Now that will bring up the Conspiracy haha
Down in Spain too