DDG runs on bing, so that squares. Apparently, MS uses Bing for their portal, because I can't search inside Azure portal neither.

like a very large number of things we are pitched as search engines: https://www.searchenginemap.com/

The lack of status pages is annoying. Neither Bing, Ecosia or DuckDuckGo have one.

Maybe today's the day we find out DDG is just a UI to an Amazon Go-style backend: a room full of workers in India typing the queries into Bing and copy/pasting the results back to you.

Wow. This.

Does it vary by region? Mine works fine for bing.

Bing is sluggish but seems to work sometimes now.

I wonder if it's a DDoS attack on Bing.

....can you really DDoS Bing?

It has not been down for me.

works for me 8 minutes later, idk