Microsoft Outage Hits Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT Search

[coolfactor]

I wish you could set a custom search engine in Safari.

Just set the Home address to your preferred search website. Easy.

 

[coolfactor]

A.I. has taken over... this is the future.

 

[bLackjackj]

For users needing to perform searches on Bing, accessing the search engine directly through the alternative URL is a workaround

As if, Lol

Google.com is up and running, the world goes on...what a way to end the week for Microsoft.

 

[An-apple-a-day]

my Ducks have failed to Go for a few hours now. I have to use *ugh* Google instead

Hell no, I’d rather just not do any Internet searches at all for as long it takes to get this fixed.

 

[GMShadow]

Impossible, I was told only Apple had downtime because of Tim Cook. Now he’s making Microsoft go down too?

 

[jdclifford]

DuckDuckGo just came back up for me in US.

 

[rp100]

Copilot went sentient and is trying to protect us.

 

[ThankYouRob]

This isn't true, but I'm starting a rumor that one of their underwater data centers experienced a shark attack. Feel free to spread the word.

 

[516_affs5]

Oh well, I have bing.com on my PiHole blacklist anyway...

May I ask you why? is there something that I do not yet know? 😅

 

[WWPD]

https://www.lycos.com/ is still working.

 

[one more]

Yes, have been having issues with my default Duck (that depends on Bing for its search) over the last 8 hours in France. DDG recognised the ongoing issues on their X account. For now switched to Google.

 

[Alfred.Woodden]

Just noticed this with DuckDuckGo, which I had no idea had anything to do with Microsoft.

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of over 400 sources according, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and DuckDuckBot web crawler.

 

[one more]

Just noticed this with DuckDuckGo, which I had no idea had anything to do with Microsoft.

I think they depend on Bing for their search results.

 

[LavaLevel]

What about Ask Jeeves? 😄

 

[jb310]

Somewhere, Sundar Pichai is swishing wineglasses full of Google logo-colored fruit punch around and cackling wildly like a supervillain.

A Googly supervillain.

 

[gatorvet96]

I'm in Connecticut and duckduckgo has been down for me

 

[justanthonylee]

I wish you could set a custom search engine in Safari.

You can. At first I was thinking just change default but you can set custom search engine, there are many extensions to do this.

 

[Kirkster]

Well still down at 9:25 EST

 

[Piplodocus]

I presume Ecosia uses the same servers too. Noticed DDG this morning, then Ecosia the same when I got to work.

 

[one more]

DDG is back on 🖐️

 

[Kleber20]

Now I know why my duck ducks didn’t go 🙁

 

[Dj64Mk7]

This isn't true, but I'm starting a rumor that one of their underwater data centers experienced a shark attack. Feel free to spread the word.

Thank you for starting your statement with “this isn’t true”. Genuine honestly is unfortunately rare now.

 

[and 1989 others]

*Laughs in AWS*

 

[ScreenSavers]

I actually had to use Google this morning. Unfortunately.

 

[Realityck]

Just announced all their new AI stuff as well, not a good look.

Wonderful timing by MS so not to impress potential buyers for sure. Even though they keep pushing it for win 11 users, its just not that compelling to need for an extra $20 a month. (CoPilot Pro)