Huge Microsoft outage takes down Bing.com, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT for thousands of users

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. DuckDuckGo issued a brief statement on X. Users were greeted with an error page featuring a panda on Bing.com with the message: 'It's not you, it's us.' 'Announcement: We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search that might prevent you from getting results.