Huge Microsoft outage takes down Bing.com, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT for thousands of users
Daily MailA major outage struck Bing.com, Microsoft's search engine, early Thursday with the problem apparently spreading to the brand's application programming interface which means that services such as DuckDuckGo also went down. DuckDuckGo's statement regarding the outage posted at 9:21am GMT The message that greeted Bing Users in the early hours of Thursday Downdector.com says that there was spike in outage reports for Bing.com just after 2am eastern time, at the same time DuckDuckGo was also reported as down. During a congressional testimony last year, Weinberg confirmed that much of DuckDuckGo's search capability originated with Microsoft's Bing search engine and was not homegrown. The Bing outage was first reported around 2.00am eastern time This map shows the regions most impacted by the Bing.com outage on Tursday morning DuckDuckGo, which accounts for about 2.5 percent of search queries in the US, remained down in the early hours of Thursday This map shows were DuckDuckGo outages and problems have been reported this morning Search engine users have taken to X to express their frustration over the outages.
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