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Bing Search together with ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo weren’t obtainable.
Microsoft Bing was unavailable for an hour and together with that individuals could not use DuckDuckGo or ChatGPT as nicely.
Microsoft companies have affected AI companies like ChatGPT together with Bing Search, Copilot and extra on Thursday. The outage has been reported throughout the globe which appears to have lasted for round an hour.
Most individuals are utilizing Bing Search today due to the AI integration through Copilot and because the similar APIs are powering different features like ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo, one main outage is sufficient to spiral the entire ecosystem.
Users from India have additionally reported issues accessing these websites, and through Downdetector.in, we might verify that many of the report spike occurred after 1:30 PM IST on Thursday. During the time of writing, Bing Search was obtainable to us within the type of a gray colored web page however looking for objects provides you the small print which ultimately got here again into its true type.
However, we did discover the identical web page exhibiting the message, “It’s not you, it’s us,” which suggests Microsoft did face an outage earlier within the day that many individuals complained about on social media with posts like these:
Is #DuckDuckGo down?or is that this reminiscence holed?
I can’t get search outcomes, by no means occurred earlier than.
(should you keep in mind the film a few prepare derailment, and a poisonous spill, the place a number of the east palestinians performed extras, please refresh my reminiscence ) pic.twitter.com/dhqPAlqLze
— Veera Fager️ (@Veera_Fager) May 23, 2024
Microsoft has not formally commented on the problem however it appears many of the companies are actually again and obtainable to customers throughout the globe.
Outages like these additionally inform us that having one entity have management over these many functions isn’t splendid, particularly when the set off impact ends in all of the companies taking place concurrently for no fault of their very own. The largest casualty of this downside is ChatGPT 4 AI chatbot, forcing hundreds of thousands to depend on Google Search for his or her work and private causes.
ChatGPT Plus is the paid model of the AI chatbot that accesses the web to provide the outcomes, however with the primary API being down, the subscribers additionally needed to look forward to the function to come back alive.
