Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…
Edit: it all seems to be related to bing being down. I hope the independent engines will find a way to get really independent…
Its about time we make a federated search engine and indexer
I’ve also thought about this, but I don’t know what would be the costs to do such a thing. (I’m ignorant on the subject)
The Bing frontends are down.
Kagi works fine.
Seems to be related to bing using AI now…
Yet, DuckDuckGo and Startpage seem down, too.
Even though DDG supposedly uses its own results, and SP supposedly is a FE for GoogleDDG uses Bing results and SP aggregates Google and Bing results
Metager working just fine for me.
Google doesn’t