It's also important to note that ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are experiencing similar issues because they use the Bing API.
Just post your searches and questions here and we'll try to figure it out.
THANKYOU!
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Is Natalie Portman single? Follow up: Does Natalie Portman have low standards? I'll have a couple dozen more depending on the search results of this one.
Thankfully this will be a private search like DuckDuckGo.
I need an answer to how do I make my peepee become larger?
See results for Natalie Portman
As an AI language model, I can’t help you with that.
Why is it usually DNS?
(Network outages at work today. Guess what it was?)
DNS engineer here.
It's always DNS because no one wants to hire us. We're prima donnas that don't work much and demand large salaries. Companies think they can get away with having some random network guy "learn a bit of DNS" and it works!!... For a while... Then it fails catestrophically and the DNS engineer that was let go to "save costs" smugly watches them crash and burn. The job is super easy and simple until you're 48 hours into troubleshooting and the CTO is lighting money on fire trying to get the network back online. A big company can easily burn a DNS engineers 10 years salary in costs if they have a single large DNS failure (security or downtime).
It looks like Bing is down, and all Bing-backed search engines are too.
https://downdetector.com/status/duckduckgo/
https://downdetector.com/status/bing/
I'm kind of surprised that the Bing guys don't seem to have a system status page (that I could find) and haven't managed to have any kind of status message put on their main page.
EDIT: This appears to be their official Twitter account, which is also silent on the matter as of this writing. If they're unable to update their website, they might put something there as a way to get information out.
EDIT2: This is apparently their blog. Nothing there either as of this writing, but again, might try checking there, as it's another route they might use to get information out if they cannot do so via their main page.
EDIT3: Yahoo Search appears to be working just fine, though my understanding is that they are backed by Bing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would henceforth power Yahoo! Search, putting an end to Yahoo!'s in-house crawler.[2] For four years between 2015 until the end of 2018, it was powered by Google,[3] before returning to Microsoft Bing again.
Companies need to stop using TWITTER for anything. They’re walling up the garden we built, and it’s a cesspool of bots and run by a megalomaniac charlatan.
Still down 2 hours later. Guess AI has taken over Microsoft you guys. The robot uprising begins…
Then, considering that Google is up and running, we can already guess wich horse is on top right now. 😂
We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky
Qwant, who claim that they have their own index, is also down. Coincidence...
Qwant uses their own index, but supplements it with Bing if they don't have enough info (or for images).
Okay.
Now that we already know we are pretty much at the hands of one pupeteer, what options are there?
I already read about Kagi (apologies if mispelled) but I like to write as a hobby and 300 searches per month go fast.
What other options are there?
Edit:
For those who may be arriving now:
p.p.s Should I start categorizing these from "shady" to "worthy"?
p.p.s 2 Does anyone remember StumbleUpon? I know it was never a search engine to begin with but it was the best source of good internet content I ever got acquainted to.
Can we get something like that back?
Legit thought it was just me. I was like wtf is happening
Edit: searx it is then, https://searx.space
Worlds largest tech-megacorporation is unable to keep their shit up and running. Lmao.
I was screen sharing to someone when this happened and they asked why I don't use Google when other search engines are this unreliable. Despite me explaining it wasn't the usual, It was still pretty embarrassing lol. Wonder if DDG has the resources for an independent index.
Still down.
I picked a good day to switch to SwissCow lol
https://swisscows.com/en/web?query=%s
Free, uses it's own index, focus on privacy. If there is anything bad about it though, please let me know. It can be hard to find unbiased data on search engines when you ultimately need to use a search engine to find the info, ime.
Yeah Startpage and Ecosia too
I think having all the search engines being front ends for just bing and google has just revealed an obvious weakness.
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