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 "Duck Duck Go" , "Bing", "Yahoo" and "Ecosia" are all down. 

Dafuq is that about? 

#AskNostr 
 https://media.tenor.com/fHz7wfvakO8AAAAM/theyre-the-same-picture-the-office.gif 
 They all run of the same infrastructure don't they? I wonder what is going on though?  
 They are all bing based search crawlers.
 
 Every time I hear news like this I think the long awaited cyber pandemic is upon us.
I mean there's no doubt it's coming, because they must attempt to outlaw privacy, so it's really just a matter of when. 
 Yandex works 
 Yeah just noticed that, presearch is still working for me.  
 noticed too. strange.
startpage still works. 
 Google hostile takeover 
 apparently Bing is down, and the rest depend on their API...

the illusion of choice, it seems... 
 I had no idea that Duck duck go was using a bing api, shows you my level of naivety.  
 I blame the government as usual