DuckDuckGo down?
DuckDuckGo down?
DuckDuckGo down? It's not returning any results for me, is it a global outage? Have had to resort to using Google... Ouch!
How does this happen to a major search engine!?
How does this happen to a major search engine!?
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
I've been having the same problem this morning.
The server is up but the search functionality isn't working.
"Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too":
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing- ... VZ9cqNMWPj
Jonathan
The server is up but the search functionality isn't working.
"Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too":
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing- ... VZ9cqNMWPj
Jonathan
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
Yes, Bing is down and that's behind a lot of non-Google search.
Alternatives include www.mojeek.com which has its own index and anything from https://searx.space/ which aggregate and cache.
Alternatives include www.mojeek.com which has its own index and anything from https://searx.space/ which aggregate and cache.
MJR, mostly pedalling 3-speed roadsters. KL+West Norfolk BUG incl social easy rides http://www.klwnbug.co.uk
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Re: DuckDuckGo down?
I understand that Tesco can go down, taxi booking websites can go down, but Bing?! How is that even possible! Surely they have an army of engineers on call 24/7 for potential outages?
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
Perhaps some memes have hijacked the API.
Shirley
Shirley
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
Still down... It's a real pain to go back to Google 

Re: DuckDuckGo down?
Use "bangs".
I cheat in that I don't find DuckDuckGo search results useful but don't like Google (though I've blocked most of their tracking). So my default search engine is set to DuckDuckGo but use "bangs" to switch to where I do wany to search eg to Google (or Google UK) or Wikipedia or YouTube - and t's easier as you don't bother having to switch to the site and then entering your search clue, just direct from teh address bar.
Ian
I cheat in that I don't find DuckDuckGo search results useful but don't like Google (though I've blocked most of their tracking). So my default search engine is set to DuckDuckGo but use "bangs" to switch to where I do wany to search eg to Google (or Google UK) or Wikipedia or YouTube - and t's easier as you don't bother having to switch to the site and then entering your search clue, just direct from teh address bar.
Ian
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Bangs
https://fcit.usf.edu/using-duckduckgo-bangs/
https://www.howtogeek.com/711984/how-to ... -websites/
Jonathan
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Re: DuckDuckGo down?
Prefix your DuckDuckGo with an exclamation mark then a code eg
!g <google search clue> eg !g cheap cinema tickets
or
!guk <google search clue> eg !guk cheap cinema tickets (to search using Google's UK search
or
!w <wikipedia search clue> eg !w Boyle's Law (for direct Wikipedia search)
or
!yt <youtube search clue> eg !yt Genesis videos
etc. There are thousands of them and you remember then few you'll use very quickly (as they are pretty obvious).
Ian
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
Thanks for that Ian, great tip 

Re: DuckDuckGo down?
It's something I use all the time as it allows me to have DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but to direct any search I'm making direct to where I want searched.
Ian
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
So go somewhere else?
MJR, mostly pedalling 3-speed roadsters. KL+West Norfolk BUG incl social easy rides http://www.klwnbug.co.uk
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Re: DuckDuckGo down?
Should be back up now.
I haven't seen an explanation yet.
Jonathan
I haven't seen an explanation yet.
Jonathan
Re: DuckDuckGo down?
It's back up but feeling very slow compared to normal. I reckon that was about an 8hr outage. Weird.... 
