Microsoft Bing issue takes down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features

May 23, 2024 05:20 PM - 5 months ago 53393

Search capabilities for ChatGPT, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and different platforms aren't moving decently correct now owed to a Microsoft outage that appears to beryllium related to nan Bing exertion programming interface (API). Sites and services are either wholly unavailable aliases only intermittently responding astatine nan clip of publication.

The issues — which began astir 3AM ET — look to beryllium linked to Bing’s API and immoderate work that relies upon it. While Microsoft’s ain web hunt motor Bing was besides seemingly affected earlier, according to Techcrunch, nan work now appears to beryllium correctly loading hunt results.

Search engines for illustration DuckDuckGo relying connected Bing’s API are displaying correction messages.

Image: DuckDuckGo

Other hunt engines for illustration DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, which trust connected Bing’s API, are incapable to load immoderate hunt results. Microsoft’s Copilot is besides experiencing akin issues, displaying a loading loop that prevents users from accessing nan service. ChatGPT, which allows Plus subscribers to execute web searches, is likewise displaying an correction connection erstwhile users effort to make a hunt enquiry.

Microsoft has acknowledged nan loading issues pinch its Copilot service, saying it’s “working to isolate nan origin of nan issue.” Meanwhile, Microsoft’s work wellness platform doesn’t emblem immoderate different work outages currently. OpenAI and Ecosia person confirmed that they are experiencing issues pinch their platform's hunt features, and OpenAI says it’s besides investigating nan issue.

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