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.
#Bing (search) being down, and causing #DuckDuckGo to throw "There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again." is demonstrating that even if DDG say they also use other sources they're 100% dependent on Bing to actually have their search work.
So, are those 'other sources' only used to augment results ?
And just to add an extra rancid cherry on top this morning, #duckduckgo isn't working this morning. Site is accessible but search results don't work, I guess MS has been updating the Bing API or something and ruining that too.
Funktionieren #Startpage und #DuckDuckGo bei euch?
Ich hab da schon den ganzen Tag Probleme und Fehlermeldungen. Nur #Google funktioniert normal. Erst dachte ich, das liegt am Arbeits-PC (der hat nur Google-Chrome und allgemein nur Google-Gedöns), aber auf dem Handy mit Fennec zickt Startpage auch.