#DuckDuckGo going down again (#HugOps to everyone there) has really reminded my how much my unconscious workflow depends on a search engine these days.
To set a search engine as your default, visit the site and right click the URL bar, and select add. Then change your default in settings.
(Firefox will add it as an option in the default engines in settings. Chrome will open settings with it as an "inactive shortcut" which you can "make default" in the entry's menu.)
"A global outage is affecting a variety of Microsoft services, including its Bing search engine and Copilot AI tool.
Users turned to social media on Thursday to complain about the outage, which is also impacting third parties, including the search engine DuckDuckGo, which relies on Microsoft’s infrastructure."
@noellemitchell I guess I live the life of a digital hermit as this is the first I’m hearing about a large outage online. To be fair, I also didn’t know about the large Facebook outage a couple weeks ago.
Wow idk when they did this... I went to search (with google!?!?) to see if #duckduckgo had a blog or something for news about their outage, and ofc they just have a twitter page. But if you look at it from the browser while not logged in you dont see their most recent posts, but posts ranked mostly by number of likes but also in random order.
Pour celles et ceux qui utilisent #Bing (???), #Duckduckgo, #Qwant (oui, y'a que toi), #Ecosia etc etc.
Bing étant kapout, ces moteurs de recherche le sont aussi
Mais heureusement, @zaclys gère une instance #searxng qui, elle, reste fonctionnelle !