Huge Microsoft outage takes down Bing.com, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT for thousands of users
A major outage hit Bing.com, Microsoft’s search engine, early Thursday, with the problem apparently spreading to the brand’s application programming interface, meaning services like DuckDuckGo were also down.
According to reports, the outage will also affect ChatGPT and Ecosia. Despite Google’s dominance in the world of web search, Bing’s API has numerous high-profile customers.
Microsoft has not yet commented on the outage, while DuckDuckGo has issued a brief statement about X.
‘Announcement: We’re currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search that may be preventing you from getting results. Thank you for your patience as we get our ducks in a row…,” the company said.
Downdector.com says there was a spike in outage reports for Bing.com just after 2 a.m. eastern time, while DuckDuckGo was also reported as offline at the same time.
TechCrunch reported that Bing.com and DuckDuckGo were back online around 5 a.m. eastern time.
In several reports on X, users said they were greeted with a blank page or a 429 HTTP code error when trying to log in.
DuckDuckGo’s statement about the outage was posted at 9:21 a.m. GMT
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