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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I was wondering why Ecosia didn’t give me any search results yesterday. Well, now I know.
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Ahhhh my self hosted SearXNG is inmune HA!
Its a known issue
Somebody really Binged it up.
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Bingus Duckus
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startpage was fine for me
It seemed to be out last night for me. Came up with no results for some really basic searches
why don’t they just build their own indexer and AI crawler… Brave is newer yet surpassed both of them
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shill harder somewhere else
But why? DDG isn’t that private either!
correct, but brave is not only shittier, but it is also an active saboteur to the cause.
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Yes I had. DuckDuckGo was crippled as Bing was down today.
It’s back now.
This is the moment in Scooby-Doo where the gang unmasks the person they’ve just caught and underneath is just the Microsoft Bing logo
Time to ditch duckduckBing
Why? Because it is down or because you just noticed that is is basicly just a Bing-Proxy?
Nah, just switched to searx for a day, and came back once DDG was up again.
It’s my backup search engine. I use Brave and Searx as the main search engines.
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
Brave is a series scammer. Always has been, always will be.
Brave search* sorry for the confusion. I use floorp as my main browser.
An individual with cultural galore over here. Great choices.
Probably because it’s down. I for one am surprised they have no failover for when Bing goes down.
I’m more surprised bing doesn’t have a fail over for whenever bing goes down.
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.
That’s sad, since one would logically expect any AI to get better if it loses access to Bing search results.
Ecosia was affected too. It’s Bing with trees.
Thought it was google with trees
huh, I thought ddg had its own indexer?
Only for the instant answers. The regular results are all bing
yes, everyone on earth.
Bing API is down, which has killed some things.
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This definitely makes me confused. I thought their whole thing was that they were a proxy for google results??
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Yeah, me too