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DuckDuckGo Is Down
26 points by GavinAnderegg 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
I was having intermittent search failures this morning, but now every query results in this error:

    Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results. Click here to try again.
I tried looking for an official status page, but couldn't find one. That said, it looks like others are having the same issue: https://downdetector.com/status/duckduckgo/

EDIT: They've now updated the search results page with the following after it returns no results:

    We’re experiencing an outage.
    Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row!


Got DDG set as the default search engine in Firefox.

Saw the error, immediately typed "duckduckgo status" into the address bar and searched - in DDG.

Not my smartest moment.


Haha. I only avoided that reflexive action because my reflex when a large online service is down is to start typing 'news.ycom...' in my address bar and then scroll down to search :-)

Of course hilarity will ensue the day I experience a HN outage and wish to see if anyone has made a thread about it...


I did the exact same thing! Yeah, not my smartest moment either.


!ai are you down?


I didn't realise bang operators work even when DuckDuckGo itself is down.

That's pretty neat, I don't need to change the search in the address bar, just add '!g' to every search to seamlessly redirect to Google until DuckDuckGo is back.


"We’re experiencing an outage" in Colombia, too


Came here as my searches were failing (UK)


Same (also UK).




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