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Thursday's Bing API Outage Took Down DuckDuckGo, Copilot, and ChatGPT Search


Thursday long-time Slashdot reader mschaffer reported that "Microsoft's search engine isn't working correctly, and many alternative search engines that rely on it are down, too." Bing started "having issues" around 1:30 a.m. EST, reports SearchEngineLand (citing Downdector.com, and sharing screens...

"Bing started "having issues" around 1:30 a.m. EST, reports SearchEngineLand(citing Downdector.com, and sharing screenshots of Bing.com searches failing — even on partner sites like DuckDuckGo). By Thursday morning search capabilities for ChatGPT, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and other platforms had stopped working, reports the Verge, saying the issues "appeared to be linked to Bing's API and any service that relies upon it." But their article digs deep into the alternatives, starting with this list compiled by undergraduate CS major Rohan Kumar of search sites with their own indexes — including Mojeek, Stract, and Right Dao and Yep...

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