Hey, Brave engineer here. Brave Search is up and running (thanks to our fully independent index and no reliance on Bing whatsoever). Any 500 error is unrelated to the Bing incident.

Would you be able to share a query if the 500 happens consistently? We’ll look into it.

Thanks for your help, I hope that helps,

Test - works

Test one - works

Test one two three - got 500

Feels strange.

Edit:

Hello - works

Hello world - 500 again

It’s like, if you type in more than 1-2 words it gives you 500.

Edit:

Test one two - just gave me 500 this time. It’s not very consistent. Maybe it’s something on my end. I wonder if anybody can reproduce it. I made a screen recording to proof I’m not too crazy, if necessary.

Thanks! At the moment we are not observing any 500s on our end so it would definitely be very useful to get a screen recording so that we can pin-point any issue that you are facing.

One of the interesting things about this downtime is that it has highlighted how many 'alternative' search engines are really just a front-end for Bing.

Wait until the ChatGPT API goes down one day and see how just about all startups from the last 12 months are just wrappers.

You don't need to look hard to find this happen. OpenAI has had several API outages this year

Not sure why your text is grey. I mean, yeah, “Dependency” xkcd exists for a reason: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Except that in this case instead of a “random person in Nebraska” we have a multi billion dollar corporation.