Yep got the same message using StartPage for nowDDG is having a bad day. Received a message that they are experiencing problems and working hard to fix it.
A massive Microsoft outage is impacting Bing, Copilot, ChatGPT, and DuckDuckGo
The rest of ChatGPT stills works, but its internet search functionality is affected.www.zdnet.com
thank you for the clarification. my confidence restored but be better if they used their own. Not good to be dependent on another company like that.""The private search engine DuckDuckGo, which isn't owned by Microsoft but uses the Bing API, has also been affected.""
from the link in @kc1di's post
Not good to be dependent on another company like that.
Depends what you are searching for.I have still to see an actual example of precisely how a Google search is superior to a DDG search.
Here is an example of why google is preferred here over duckduckgo. In the following examples, the same search terms were provided to the respective search engines, but the results are significantly different. In particular, the google results access the forums in a more comprehensive way, providing links to numerous articles in those forums, whereas duckduckgo provides a link to a single forum item, and then more formal articles.I have still to see an actual example of precisely how a Google search is superior to a DDG search.
That ain't gonna happen to much money to be made from user data.Now all we have to do is get Google to straighten their act up re data collection.
NoScript and block all google related domains except those required for googling on google.com.Now all we have to do is get Google to straighten their act up re data collection.
Has for many years I remember reading this back in the days of Windows XP .What everybody certainly needs to know is that all search engines rely on google,