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Image and video search works. Regular text search, maps and news are down. Did they forget to bay their Bing bill?

EDIT: scratch that. DDG is back in business again. I would love to read a post-mortem.

If just Bing broke, then I wouldn't expect to see zero results unless they didn't handle that edge case gracefully, since Bing isn't their only source.

Do they still use Bing ? I thought DDG had in-house search db.

The Duck Duck Bot crawls the web in some fashion but it is my understanding most of what's in their search result comes from their Bing indices. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Afaik, it's still mostly from Bing.

They still use Bing, and others.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

"These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google)."

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