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Search engines down? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage... All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page...

Edit: it all seems to be related to bing being down. I hope the independent engines will find a way to get really independent...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yet, DuckDuckGo and Startpage seem down, too. ~~Even though DDG supposedly uses its own results, and SP supposedly is a FE for Google~~ DDG uses Bing results and SP aggregates Google and Bing results

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Has ddg ever really claimed to use its own index? I've always thought of it being a bing frontend

edit: Apparently start page pulls from Google and Bing (going off of this)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I recall that DuckDuckGo bought data from Yahoo and then used that on its own, but if that was ever true it no longer is:

Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources