If I do a search from within a browser I get the following:
There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.
This occurs with Firefox, Vivaldi and Waterfox using DuckDuckGo or Bing search engines.
This has only just started happening.
Can anyone pplease advise ?

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Fred,

If I do a search from within a browser I get the following:
There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.
This occurs with Firefox, Vivaldi and Waterfox using DuckDuckGo or
Bing search engines.
This has only just started happening.
Can anyone pplease advise ?

I tried to use DDG today and also noticed something going on, as I got no or just a single result - even when looking for "bing". And AFAIK DGG gets its results from Bing, so the problem could well be the latter.

You could try Google or one of the other search-engines, like https://search.brave.com/

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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Microsoft issues. Duck Duck Go uses Bing search engine.

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On 5/23/24 07:32 AM, scbs29 wrote:

If I do a search from within a browser I get the following:
There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.
This occurs with Firefox, Vivaldi and Waterfox using DuckDuckGo or Bing search engines.
This has only just started happening.
Can anyone pplease advise ?

I brought up Bing this morning and all I got was the search box. I usually open it to see what
picture is there. But nothing, just black screen and box for input, and the bing logo someplace.
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
(scbs29) wrote:

*From:* scbs29 <[email protected]>
*Date:* Thu, 23 May 2024 12:32:14 +0100

If I do a search from within a browser I get the following:
There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.
This occurs with Firefox, Vivaldi and Waterfox using DuckDuckGo or
Bing search engines.
This has only just started happening.
Can anyone pplease advise ?

MS Bing and Copilot were down earlier today. See https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/bing_and_copilot_fall_from/
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R.Wieser <[email protected]d> wrote:

AFAIK DGG gets its results from Bing, so the problem could well be the latter.

Yep, Bing fell over.

You could try Google or one of the other search-engines, like https://search.brave.com/

Or a privacy-oriented search that uses Google's engine, like Startpage (https://www.startpage.com/).

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On Thu, 23 May 2024 16:05:18 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Or a privacy-oriented search that uses Google's engine, like Startpage (https://www.startpage.com/).

I thought I read that there are significant privacy problems in
Startpage lately. Am I confusing that with something else?


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Stan Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Or a privacy-oriented search that uses Google's engine, like Startpage
(https://www.startpage.com/).

I thought I read that there are significant privacy problems in
Startpage lately. Am I confusing that with something else?

The rumors started when Startpage was acquired by a marketing company
back in 2018. A controlling share is owned by System 1 (who also
acquired Waterfox). That was over 6 years ago. No one has yet detected Startpage is collecting personal data. Public concern was fueled by
just speculation. Gee, an advertising company just must harvest
anything and everything processed by all their properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1

https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521498779156-What-it-means-for-Startpage-now-that-System1-is-a-publicly-traded-company

Yet how many Avast, AVG, and Ccleaner users fled away from those
products when Avast added their marketing platform into their products,
into AVG when they acquired that, and into CCleaner when they acquired Piriform?

Facts are boring. Rumors are salacious. Very hard to defende or repair
a reputation damaged by rumors.

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winston <[email protected]> wrote:

Stan Brown wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Or a privacy-oriented search that uses Google's engine, like Startpage
(https://www.startpage.com/).

I thought I read that there are significant privacy problems in
Startpage lately. Am I confusing that with something else?

A few years old
<https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/is-startpage-legit/>

Fwiw, the above source, makeuseof.com DNS hosting provider is Amazon,
iirc, Canada.

Also, Startpage is supported by ad revenue. While Startpage may not be storing ip addresses, that doesn't limit the device's ip address being
used for or with the ads.

Startpage is headquartered in Hague, Netherlands, so outside the reach
of US FBI's NSLs (National Security Letters) that force a company to
retain records despite what the company claims, but obviously not
outside the realm of their own laws. Duck Duck Go is headquartered in
Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA. The USA is one of the "Five Eyes" countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes). Netherlands is not.

Despite what DDG claims, they could also be saving IP addresses for both
their own telemetry to modify their service, and for other purposes.

https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-microsoft-twitter-ft-bush-assassination-whatsapp/
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/use-of-third-party-microsoft-trackers-calls-privacy-status-of-duckduckgo-into-question-privacy-browser-found-to-quietly-allow-user-tracking/

DDG was sharing personal data to Microsoft when using Bing. DDG
promised to stop that practice. Did they yet?

If there is advertising at Startpage, it is so subtle that I don't see
any. Try:

https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=intel%20cpu

which gives the following web page:

https://imgur.com/a/q7soQlE

Where's the advertising? They claim to not share personal data, too.
I'm still waiting, as opposed to reports about DDG, that someone has
discovered Startpage is sharing data with Google, or with System1.

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winston <[email protected]> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Where's the advertising?

Perform a search.
The section that shows 'Related searches' are sponsored revenue sources.

Ah, as I showed in the screenshot if a searcg, there were no ads (aka
sponsored hits). That was due to using uBlock Origin. When I disabled
uBO, yep, I saw the sponsored hits.

I also see ads at DDG. After each hit that is sponsored is an "AD" icon
inside a square box, and a "Report ad" hyperlink after the URL for a
hit. I had to disable uBO to see those, too.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/advertise-on-duckduckgo-search/
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duckduckgo-private-search/

They both need to survive. They are NOT altruistic ventures that
continue to exist until the funding owner runs out of money. However,
if uBO can filter out those ads, other adblockers should work, too, like AdBlock Plus.

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On Fri, 24 May 2024 22:26:24 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Stan Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

[quoted text muted]

(https://www.startpage.com/).

I thought I read that there are significant privacy problems in
Startpage lately. Am I confusing that with something else?

The rumors started when Startpage was acquired by a marketing company
back in 2018. A controlling share is owned by System 1 (who also
acquired Waterfox). That was over 6 years ago. No one has yet detected Startpage is collecting personal data. Public concern was fueled by
just speculation. Gee, an advertising company just must harvest
anything and everything processed by all their properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1

https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521498779156-What-it-means-for-Startpage-now-that-System1-is-a-publicly-traded-company

Thanks, Vanguard.

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