Duckduckgo is most definitely not google, though you can access the anonymized google interface startpage.com by using the duckduckgo s! bang (for anyone unfamiliar with ddg, the bangs are a productivity heaven). If google is down, so will be startpage.com.
More importantly, I wonder how much that outage cost everyone.
I've seen many computer users simply "give up using the Internet" when Google is down, returning after a coffee break to resume.
It wouldn't surprise me if Wikipedia, at least, had a measurable traffic drop during the outage. I think they even have public MRTG logs, so someone more enterprising than me could confirm that... :-)
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https://www.google.co.uk/#q=test
Does work every now and then
https://duckduckgo.com/
http://www.bing.com
Edit: I thought duckduckgo used search results from Google but without personalisation and tracking, removed my comment as this seems to be incorrect
https://duck.co/help/results/sources
The search results page sometimes works.
The search result links, however, seem to be 90% broken, for example this is always broken:
http://www.google.pl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=...
Edit: looks like that 5 minutes of fun is now over, and all is back to normal.
I'd love to know how much that little outage cost Google.
I've seen many computer users simply "give up using the Internet" when Google is down, returning after a coffee break to resume.
It wouldn't surprise me if Wikipedia, at least, had a measurable traffic drop during the outage. I think they even have public MRTG logs, so someone more enterprising than me could confirm that... :-)
Here is the status board of GAPPS: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=nl&v=status
Appears to be working again now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxLmLUT-qc