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Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too
Tech Crunch ^ | May 23, 2024 | Roman Dillet

Posted on 05/23/2024 4:36:50 AM PDT by DoodleBob

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, isn’t working properly right now. At first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all. Now it seems search results are loading properly.

But this outage also appears to still be affecting Bing’s application programming interface (API), which means that other services that rely on Bing aren’t working properly.

For instance, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, two alternative search engines that rely on Bing’s search results, aren’t returning any search results right now. Microsoft Copilot isn’t loading either. ChatGPT Plus subscribers, who have the ability to perform web searches, also get an error when they try to search for something too.

Once again, an outage proves the web depends on a handful of tech companies. If an API goes down, many services are affected.

In this particular case, it’s interesting to see the increasingly important role of Bing’s API. While Google still dominates when it comes to web search, many services are now reliant on Bing’s API.

Microsoft could not immediately be reached for comment on the outage.


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KEYWORDS: bing; censorship; duckduckgo; privacy; searchengines; yandex
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To: Regulator

Yandex works fine too.

So does Luxxle


21 posted on 05/23/2024 6:13:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BobL

I suppose you won’t get results processed by the inventors of propaganda, either?


22 posted on 05/23/2024 6:13:55 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: xoxox

“I suppose you won’t get results processed by the inventors of propaganda, either?”

If you use Yandex to learn of opposition to Putin, it might get processed and filtered, but feel free to compare what they return versus what Google returns regarding 2020 US Elections being rigged.

Bottom line is that for real conservatives (meaning those that are not Operatives here), Yandex is likely the best site to get ‘unsanitized’ information.


23 posted on 05/23/2024 6:33:20 AM PDT by BobL
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To: DoodleBob
"Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too."

I don't think I'll miss it...

24 posted on 05/23/2024 6:33:59 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: BobL

It’s all the same KGB, imho. Serge Brin much?


25 posted on 05/23/2024 6:34:56 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: xoxox

“It’s all the same KGB, imho. Serge Brin much?”

Well, I get different results Yandex regarding topics that are ‘sensitive’ to the Deep State, can’t speak for others though.


26 posted on 05/23/2024 6:41:00 AM PDT by BobL
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To: xoxox

DDG uses multiple search engines including Bing and Google...


27 posted on 05/23/2024 6:46:47 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: BobL

I wonder how much each algo tailors results to any particular searcher’s histories.


28 posted on 05/23/2024 7:13:33 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: xoxox

That’s over my head, no idea!


29 posted on 05/23/2024 7:15:08 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Oh, me too. But I think it’s a thing.


30 posted on 05/23/2024 7:18:35 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: T.B. Yoits

Thank you.


31 posted on 05/23/2024 7:25:29 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Switched this morning after I heard on a podcast that DuckDuckGo has gone to the dark side and is spying on people.


32 posted on 05/23/2024 8:21:29 AM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: DoodleBob

Blue Screen of Death 2


33 posted on 05/23/2024 9:22:01 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: dljordan

Was the podcaster a shareholder of a competitor?


34 posted on 05/23/2024 9:36:07 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DoodleBob
I just did two searches on Bing.

Working fine at 11:10 AM PST

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was doing a Bing-CoPilot-AI press tour just a couple days ago.

Whoops!

35 posted on 05/23/2024 11:16:10 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: DoodleBob

I don’t no I was half asleep.


36 posted on 05/23/2024 12:56:56 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Flavious_Maximus
watching the Copilot print text, one letter at a time.

That's how this chat technology works, one letter at a time. Copilot is dumping the letters as they are returned from the parallel processors accessing the neural network blob. The only way to get faster results is by using extremely expensive GPUs and paying for the privilege.

You can download a smaller open source blob and run the simple accessing program on your own laptop and watch the letters form. The smaller your GPU memory, the slower the letters surface out of the blob.

Microsoft has always produced crap software, but that is their business model, so you have to upgrade, and they don't go out of business. Hiring a million curb turders was a natural for them, and their stockholders are doing well.

Like Japan did to Detroit, Japan could have taken over with high quality products. But waterfall-style engineering doesn't work for well software, and Japan has always sucked at it. Sony would have been Apple if not for their terrible software engineering.

37 posted on 05/23/2024 7:11:42 PM PDT by Reeses
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