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…
Seems to be related to bing using AI now…
https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/112489782242675124
“We’re totally not just rewrapping Bing results!!!”
https://downdetector.com/status/bing/
Yet, DuckDuckGo and Startpage seem down, too. Even though DDG supposedly uses its own results, and SP supposedly is a FE for Google
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)
I recall that DuckDuckGo bought data from Yahoo and then used that on its own, but if that was ever true it no longer is:
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources