Technology Bing is having a worldwide outage, also affecting DuckDuckGo

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Search engine Bing is suffering from a global outage. Search engines that use Bing, such as DuckDuckGo, are also difficult to reach.
Users who go to the Bing.com homepage will see a full-page error message that makes the search engine unusable. Users who search for Bing via, for example, the Windows Start menu, sometimes see results, but often not.
The disruption started According to AlleStoringen, around half past eight on Thursday morning. It is not clear what the problem is and when Microsoft will resolve it. Bing does not have its own status page.
Alternative search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Qwant also do not work well. These search engines use the search results from Bing. The homepage works, but no search results are displayed.


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I find it funny that it's down for almost 3 hours now and Microsoft is dead silent.
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. :LOL:
 

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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.
 

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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. :LOL:
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.
 

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Which big tech company out there that doesn't? Cloudflare, Google, Amazon all want to be the forefront of the Internet.
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. :whistle:
 

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To use Bing, go to this URL and search as usual. It will work. However, Copilot is completely offline whether you use the website, app, or Copilot in Windows.
Very appropriate background image:

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Seems it has been down for many hours now. Whenever I try to go to Bing I get these 2 error messages.
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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? :unsure:

People post pictures from it, which remind me of blocking Bing via DNS.

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