So it seems that #DuckDuckGo was down for the last few hours because of a #Bing outage. That's very annoying; DDG should probably get out from under Microsoft's coat tails...
While #DuckDuckGo is down, I tried out a few other search engines. I did a search I made yesterday in each. #Bing gave me an interesting looking blog first, then some less-related info from high-trust sources, then an interesting paper, then a bunch of garbage. #Mojeek gave me nothing that looked interesting, just pages that used some of the words from my search. #Kagi gave me the less-related high-trust sources first, then the entire rest of the first page looked interesting.
23.5.2024 - Der Tag an dem offensichtlich wurde, dass Bing praktisch die einzige verbliebene Alternative zu Google ist. Alle anderen "Suchmaschinen" sind Bing mit Schlapphut und Trenchcoat. 🕵️
"We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row.
In the meantime, you can use other search engines right here by using "bangs”:”
When #Bing and #duckduckgo is down, #kagi is still working. I’m an happy kagi paying user.
If only they didn’t try to divest themselves printing t-shirts, making a new MacOS browser or a completely-utterly stupid IA, they would be a really cool company.
But companies come and go, it is just a matter of not being dependent and jumping out of the wagon as soon as the enshitiffication becomes too strong.
🧵…dass nun die Probleme mit der Nutzung von der Suchmaschiene #Bing weitläufig ist hatte ich oben schon erwähnt, sogar ein Teil von populären #KI ist es ebenfalls:
»Microsoft – Bing-Probleme reißen #Copilot, #Duckduckgo und #ChatGPT-Suche in den Abgrund:
Seit Stunden sind all diese Dienste nicht erreichbar. #Microsofts eigene #Suchmaschine funktioniert wieder, jene, die sie indirekt verwenden, haben aber ein Problem«
@viennawriter@GossiTheDog@gabboman Agree. Calling #DuckDuckGo just a #Bing front-end is technically true but also it does add a lot of value on top acting as a privacy shield not letting #Microsoft track the users. I also like the features it provides on top like bangs, etc. Also hopes it builds its own index sometime. They say they have their own index but I doubt it as it was unable to return any results even for simple queries when Bing was down.