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…
elxeno ( @elxeno@lemm.ee ) 69•1 month agoWait it’s all bing? 🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
smileyhead ( @smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ) 54•1 month agoThat’s just Bing down with all of it’s puppets rebrands.
Fonzie! ( @lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ) 17•1 month agoAs I stated here https://ttrpg.network/comment/7065350
It seems search engines supposedly using their own data, or acting as FE for Google, are down, too
muntedcrocodile ( @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ) English37•1 month agoIts about time we make a federated search engine and indexer
алсааас [she/they] ( @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•1 month agoSmth like yaCy?
muntedcrocodile ( @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month agoLooks interesting why have i never heard of this. Are there any websites that rank search engines to get some concrete metrics? I had a look at what people have been saying about it seems it has poor search results unfortubatly.
алсааас [she/they] ( @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•1 month agoidk about any ranking sites, but from what I understand, YaCy gets better the more ppl participate in it
other ppl already mentioned Searxng which is also great
muntedcrocodile ( @muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month agoThats what im currently using but its a meta search engine and still relies on everyone else’s proprietary crap.
Icr8tdThis4ccToWarn ( @Icr8tdThis4ccToWarn@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 month agoI’ve also thought about this, but I don’t know what would be the costs to do such a thing. (I’m ignorant on the subject)
Seems to be related to bing using AI now…
Fonzie! ( @lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ) 5•1 month agoYet, DuckDuckGo and Startpage seem down, too.
Even though DDG supposedly uses its own results, and SP supposedly is a FE for GoogleDDG uses Bing results and SP aggregates Google and Bing results SqueakyBeaver ( @SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•1 month agoHas 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)
Fonzie! ( @lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ) 7•1 month agoI recall that DuckDuckGo bought data from Yahoo and then used that on its own, but if that was ever true it no longer is:
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
ulkesh ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) English1•1 month agoShocker.
BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) 14•1 month agoThey have meta engines that search instances of searx
NominatedNemesis ( @NominatedNemesis@reddthat.com ) 9•1 month agoBing is down, and every engine that uses bing api.
Chahk ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 6•1 month agoDDG was working earlier today, but for the past hour it just throws an error “There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.”
harald_im_netz ( @harald_im_netz@feddit.de ) 5•1 month agoFascinating, Duckduckgo isn’t working for me aswell.
Churbleyimyam ( @Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month agoYeah DDG was struggling for me too.
Bebo ( @Bebo@literature.cafe ) English2•1 month agoSame with me.
readbeanicecream ( @readbeanicecream@kbin.earth ) 1•1 month agoMetager working just fine for me.
dvdnet62 ( @dvdnet62@feddit.nl ) 1•1 month agoGoogle doesn’t