Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by darreninthenet on Thursday May 23, 2024 @07:52AM (#40453549)

Not defending DDG or anyone here but it depends on the cause of the outage... is it something broken in Azure (for example) that's causing it? As has been pointed out it's still possible to search with Bing (both directly and through DDG with bangs) so it might not be as simple as you're implying.

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by datavirtue on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:12AM (#40453747)

I get here by typing a mangled version of "hacker news" into DDG. It's currently not working at all.

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by ddtaylor on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:22AM (#40454377)

But why?

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by dylan604 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:30AM (#40454477)

wait, if you typed that into DDG and it brought you here, then how is it not working? if that's not what you meant, you worded your "DDG is not working at all, so I jumped onto HN to look for a thread about it" comment very strangely

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by BobaFloutist on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:46PM (#40461684)

I think that's how they typically get here, but upon it not working, they were able to unmangle the URL

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by datavirtue on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:38PM (#40462020)

No need to unwind the pedants.

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by dylan604 on Friday May 24, 2024 @09:39AM (#40466169)

Nobody was being pedantic. I don't use the web that way. I never type into a search engine the domain of a site I want to go to, so that's just totally odd to me. I'm of an age where we actually know what a domain is, and do not use the web like it is AOL keywords. Especially when >90% of the time, you just tack on a .com to your keywords to find the actual website.

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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by BobaFloutist on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:29PM (#40469677)

> I never type into a search engine the domain of a site I want to go to

I think the plurality, if not majority, of people use a browser configured such that the URL bar is automatically a search engine if it doesn't recognize the URL.

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