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movq
www.uninformativ.de
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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now, worked fine. Today it’s down – and now I’m learning that it runs on Bing? 😳

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

Why do I keep getting hits by a DuckDuckBot then?


www.uninformativ.de 20.191.45.212 - - [23/May/2024:03:00:48 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 659 "http://www.uninformativ.de/" "DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)"
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now, worked fine. Today it’s down – and now I’m learning that it runs on Bing? 😳

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

Why do I keep getting hits by a DuckDuckBot then?


www.uninformativ.de 20.191.45.212 - - [23/May/2024:03:00:48 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 659 "http://www.uninformativ.de/" "DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)"
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now, worked fine. Today it’s down – and now I’m learning that it runs on Bing? 😳

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

Why do I keep getting hits by a DuckDuckBot then?


www.uninformativ.de 20.191.45.212 - - [23/May/2024:03:00:48 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 659 "http://www.uninformativ.de/" "DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)"
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now, worked fine. Today it’s down – and now I’m learning that it runs on Bing? 😳

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

Why do I keep getting hits by a DuckDuckBot then?


www.uninformativ.de 20.191.45.212 - - [23/May/2024:03:00:48 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 659 "http://www.uninformativ.de/" "DuckDuckBot/1.1; (+http://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html)"
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq It's always been powered by Bing right? 🤔
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq It's always been powered by Bing right? 🤔
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic I wasn’t aware of the extent. 😞 The whole thing is down now that Bing is down.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic I wasn’t aware of the extent. 😞 The whole thing is down now that Bing is down.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic I wasn’t aware of the extent. 😞 The whole thing is down now that Bing is down.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic I wasn’t aware of the extent. 😞 The whole thing is down now that Bing is down.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq Hah it's down for me too! 😱
prologic
twtxt.net
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@movq Hah it's down for me too! 😱
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

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

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

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

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

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

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

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

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
bender
twtxt.net
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@movq I will take this as pretty clear:

> "we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing"

Emphasis mine. Of course, they could have spelled "links" as "results". We all know that was done purposely. 😅
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq @prologic @bender Oh, I neither noticed the DDG downtime nor was I aware of their partnership with Bing. O_o Oh dear! Never heard of most search engines in this linked graph.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.