Bing and DuckDuckGo offline overnight, Google says thanks for the data
A massive, multi-hour outage of Microsoft’s application programming interface (API) used by its Bing search division has caused unprecedented interruptions for millions of people. Bing , which has over 9% global search market share, also serves critical Features for the privacy-conscious DuckDuckGo search engine, AI tools like ChatGPT, and the code development assistant CoPilot. All were offline today for a number of hours. Complaints rained in across social media as default search engines for millions of browsers returned errors, suspenseful spinning icons, empty search results, and error pages. Protos reporters began experiencing search engine errors on Bing and DuckDuckGo a couple of hours after midnight New York time. Problems at Microsoft look to have begun as early as late Wednesday . By 8pm, Microsoft admitted, “We’re aware of and investing reported issues accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center.” Search engines for millions of browsers returned spinning icons, empty ...