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 remain 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.
Microsoft has yet to comment on the outage.
Downdector.com says that there was spike in outage reports for Bing.com just after 2:00 am eastern time, at the same time DuckDuckGo was also reported as down.
A Microsoft Bing logo is displayed on a smartphone with a Chat GPT logo in the background
By Daily Mail Online, May 23, 2024