Microsoft’s Bing API services (the source of DuckDuckGo’s search data) went down at approx 3am ET and has not yet returned to service. Bing, DuckDuckGo, CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.
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Microsoft’s Bing API services (the source of DuckDuckGo’s search data) went down at approx 3am ET and has not yet returned to service. Bing, DuckDuckGo, CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.
Ecosia was affected too. It’s Bing with trees.
Thought it was google with trees
That’s sad, since one would logically expect any AI to get better if it loses access to Bing search results.
huh, I thought ddg had its own indexer?
Only for the instant answers. The regular results are all bing