screenshot of searching "test" in start page that doesn't return any results

EDIT: looks like they’re back.

  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Microsoft’s Bing API services (the source of DuckDuckGo’s search data) went down at approx 3am ET and has not yet returned to service. Bing, DuckDuckGo, CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.

      That’s sad, since one would logically expect any AI to get better if it loses access to Bing search results.

    • Jumuta
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      6 months ago

      huh, I thought ddg had its own indexer?

      • RmDebArc_5
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        6 months ago

        Only for the instant answers. The regular results are all bing