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allanrbo
not down for me.
jshupe
site responds but search results are down on my phone wifi, and LTE, and desktop
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pcvarmint
It started failing on searches 1-2 hours ago.
hilux
22-May-2024 ... the day privacy (finally) died.
secondary_op
Presume that duckduckgo is not private or otherwise compromised.

For example many things I search trough duckduckgo later that day showed up in my twitter/x.com algorithmic feed, coincidence ? don't think so.

n_ary
Or it could be that, when you search something, you also click through to some of the results, where FB/AdWords and other trackers are present.

Alternatively, there was a fallacy of human mind(forgot the name), where if you think of something, your brain will start focusing on the random occurrences of that things in all places. So, those ads were always there, your brain just started focusing suddenly on those as you were thinking of those things.

Note: Not affiliated with DDG.

256_
It's called the Baader-Meinhof effect.
weberer
There's also the likelyhood that the pages you landed on sent your info to their "ad partners"
logtempo
duckduckgo don't prevent website to track you or deposit cookies etc. Once you're on a website, let's say twitter, duckduckgo does nothing.

> When you view Twitter content such as embedded Tweets, buttons, or timelines integrated into other websites using Twitter for Websites, Twitter may receive information, including the web page you visited, your IP address, browser type, operating system, and cookie information. (https://developer.x.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/privacy)

So, if you visit a news paper that have embedded twitter post in it, twitter might know you passed by this website.

naitgacem
I just experienced this as well. I had a giggle when I opened a new tab and searched "is duckduckgo down" and the default search engine is ... duckduckgo.

Still no results .. strange :P

ffpip
What a coincidence!

I used it after 3-4 months and it didn't show any search results. Thought I had forgotten how to use their !bangs feature. Turns out it is down

alentred
https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment.

Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.

kuro_neko
Does it vary by region? Mine works fine for bing.
pcvarmint
Bing is sluggish but seems to work sometimes now.

I wonder if it's a DDoS attack on Bing.

Iulioh
....can you really DDoS Bing?
wannacboatmovie
Maybe today's the day we find out DDG is just a UI to an Amazon Go-style backend: a room full of workers in India typing the queries into Bing and copy/pasting the results back to you.
tgv
DDG runs on bing, so that squares. Apparently, MS uses Bing for their portal, because I can't search inside Azure portal neither.
mrweasel
The lack of status pages is annoying. Neither Bing, Ecosia or DuckDuckGo have one.
hpeter
same. I just noticed it too, about 30 minutes ago
mrweasel
It seems to be all search engines powered by Bing. Ecosia isn't working either, and they also don't have a status page.
anoplus
Started about an hour ago (~1716454800000)
camiat
Yup, I am also running into the same issue where duck duck go is returning the error message:

> Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results. Click here to try again.

I thought it was just duck duck go, but I tried searching with bing, and was met with:

> It's not you, it's us

> Bing isn't available right now, but everything should be back to normal very soon.

256_
If you look up "hacker news", it at least shows you an insert from the Wikipedia article, even if there are no normal results: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker+news
bun_terminator
They lost all relevance after they gleefully announced their manipulation of search results 2 years ago
rurban
Still better than Google
beretguy
Still there are better alternatives to ddg. I use Brave and Kagi.
rurban
But not free. I use Fennec with ddg. Loved Kagi, but too expensive for my German income
em-bee
brave search is free.
beretguy
Yes, Kagi is expensive. But it also has useful features other search engines don’t. It’s nice if you can afford it.
CTOSian
bing as well
pierrebeucher
Same problem, encountering similar problems with Qwant (though not always)
WCSTombs
Bing is up now, but DDG is still down.
worik
Comes and goes for me
n_ary
My conspiracy mind tells me, may be bing changed their search api with breaking changes or suddenly introduced massive billing(think Twitter API, reddit API et al.) hence all search-engines pulled an immediate break without having time to fix/update.
hi-v-rocknroll
Yup. Maybe it's a NS, LB, or IPv6 only problem because it works eventually.
nirse
Is it just me, or has DDG been having trouble often lately? Or is it just a combination with some outage + degradation of search results lately that makes me g! regularly these days? Didn't use to need that.
epolanski
Bing's been working oddly for few days now for me.

I guess it impacts the other engines that are based on it.

blackeyeblitzar
Ecosia is also down. I think all of these use Bing under the covers? If it is actually a Bing problem, it is pretty incredible that MS has an outage this long. Makes me think twice about the stability of Azure.
whitehat33
DDG Site responds, but gives and error and is not showing search results.
pluto_modadic
Hmmm... Is having a status page a sign of engineering maturity?
DANmode
Engineering excellence, maybe.

And then the curve ends back on the ground,

with manual updates being swapped back into the same previously automated status pages,

because money.