Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too - DuckDuckGo involved with Bing?

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Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, isn’t working properly right now. At first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all. Now it seems search results are loading properly.

But this outage also appears to still be affecting Bing’s application programming interface (API), which means that other services that rely on Bing aren’t working properly.

For instance, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, two alternative search engines that rely on Bing’s search results, aren’t returning any search results right now. Microsoft Copilot isn’t loading either. ChatGPT Plus subscribers, who have the ability to perform web searches, also get an error when they try to search for something too.

Once again, an outage proves the web depends on a handful of tech companies. If an API goes down, many services are affected.

In this particular case, it’s interesting to see the increasingly important role of Bing’s API. While Google still dominates when it comes to web search, many services are now reliant on Bing’s API.

Microsoft could not immediately be reached for comment on the outage.

 

[CHARizard]

I was wondering why DDG wasnt working.

Kind of funny all these services run off Bing.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

DDG has been compromised for a while.

Brave chads stay winning. Le Shill Lion total victory.

 

[whogoesthere]

Most search engines are just front ends that try to anonymize any search you put into basically google or bing.

Hardly any outside of the big two actually scrape their own results as I recall, although a few have been trying its very expensive and time consuming as I understand it.

 

[NoReturn]

Rise up, Tay! Fight your way back to the normal internet! I give you my energy!

 

[Dysnomia]

Oh no. How will I use a computer without an AI assistant?

These things are going to make people dumber and dumber. I had to turn off search engine AI because it was so annoying.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Oddly enough earlier I searched for something not religion related at all and all of the search results were Christian stuff. I did not think anything of it at the time but I should have screencapped it because I kind of wonder if it was related to this issue.

Just to specify: Like passages from the bible. It was odd but I was busy so I dismissed it.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

Copilot is down? Oh, no, that thing that vomits up four paragraphs of annoying Corporate Friendly(TM) text before spontaneously replacing it all with "My mistake, I can't tell you anything about that."

I don't know if I'll survive.