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Bing is having a worldwide outage, also affecting DuckDuckGo
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I find it funny that it's down for almost 3 hours now and Microsoft is dead silent.
I think they are still sleeping in the US.
And MS pushes cloud services like a cloud PC, accounts, storage. Imagine not being able to work or to do anything critical. Actually you do not have to imagine, a few months back MS had an outage, that lasted for hours, and passwordless logins did not work, the workaround was to use a password, which people did not have. So much for the visionary MS 365.
This is ridiculous, after more than 4 hours, it's still down. And then they wonder why people want to use Google...
I feel bad for the 3rd party search providers such as Duckduckgo, Ecosia, Qwant, Lilo because these are all effected too.This is ridiculous, after more than 4 hours, it's still down. And then they wonder why people want to use Google...
Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search
A massive Microsoft outage in some regions affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo.
It created an interesting ripple effect. You do not even have to take down the internet, just 2-3 search engines and the damage is done. Most people are accustomed to just type the name of a webpage to the search and go from there, since many webpages use various international domains that are hard to remember. Not to mention the actual search, it is certainly concerning.
Which big tech company out there that doesn't? Cloudflare, Google, Amazon all want to be the forefront of the Internet. Microsoft is playing its part.And MS pushes cloud services like a cloud PC, accounts, storage. Imagine not being able to work or to do anything critical. Actually you do not have to imagine, a few months back MS had an outage, that lasted for hours, and passwordless logins did not work, the workaround was to use a password, which people did not have. So much for the visionary MS 365.
But all of those mentioned have backups for everything, they literally run the internet, but MS does not have anything to remediate a situation like this, MS is a cheapskate, yet pretends otherwise.
AI is starting to bite back. Everyone is like: We do not need employees, we will let AI to do the work, good luck with that now.
No they don't.But all of those mentioned have backups for everything, they literally run the internet, but MS does not have anything to remediate a situation like this, MS is a cheapskate, yet pretends otherwise.
AI is starting to bite back. Everyone is like: We do not need employees, we will let AI to do the work, good luck with that now.
Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search
A massive Microsoft outage in some regions affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo.www.bleepingcomputer.com
Very appropriate background image:
I wonder if it has something to do with 24H2's release, with integrated Copilot? MS has decided to block Copilot+ for now, but that is also Bing, so maybe a little programmatical error?
People post pictures from it, which remind me of blocking Bing via DNS.
Microsoft releases Windows 11 24H2 to the Release Preview channel - gHacks Tech News
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People post pictures from it, which remind me of blocking Bing via DNS.
At this point, Microsoft lost that small number of Bing users it had. It took most popular tech news sites 6 hours to realize Bing is down; I guess they use Internet Explorer.
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Here it is working again, (not ChatGPT).
DuckDuckGo still gives this:
DuckDuckGo still gives this:
AI is starting to bite back. Everyone is like: We do not need employees, we will let AI to do the work, good luck with that now.
AI tools could cut staff working hours by almost half
A new report finds that as many as 19 working hours per head could be saved in the UK through the use of AI
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Type in !g and you can jump straight to Google Search. No waiting around for Microsoft to fix their network issue.
Brave Search can be tried as a temporary alternative. It has a familiar UI and includes their own AI engine.
Maybe some ethical hacker hacked it for the good of mankind!
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