A 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.
According to reports the outage also impacts ChatGPT and Ecosia. Despite Google’s dominance in the world of web searching, Bing’s API has numerous high profile clients.
Microsoft has yet to comment on the outage while DuckDuckGo issued a brief statement on X.
‘Announcement: We’re currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search that might prevent you from getting results. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row…,’ the company said.
Downdector.com says that there was spike in outage reports for Bing.com just after 2:00 am eastern time, at the same time DuckDuckGo was also reported as down.
TechCrunch reported that around 5:00am eastern time, Bing.com and DuckDuckGo were back online.
In various reports on X, users said that they were either greeted with a blank page or a 429 HTTP code error when they attempted to log on.
DuckDuckGo’s statement regarding the outage posted at 9:21am GMT
A Microsoft Bing logo is displayed on a smartphone with a Chat GPT logo in the background
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