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…
Wait it’s all bing? 🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
That’s just Bing down with all of it’s puppets rebrands.
As 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
Its about time we make a federated search engine and indexer
Smth like yaCy?
Looks 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.
idk 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
Thats what im currently using but its a meta search engine and still relies on everyone else’s proprietary crap.
I’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…
Yet, 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
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:
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
Shocker.
They have meta engines that search instances of searx
Bing is down, and every engine that uses bing api.
DDG 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.”
Fascinating, Duckduckgo isn’t working for me aswell.
Yeah DDG was struggling for me too.
Same with me.
Metager working just fine for me.
Google doesn’t
