I think having all the search engines being front ends for just bing and google has just revealed an obvious weakness.

Funny thing is the way I found out bing was down is I searched for startpage in duckduckgo to try it thinking it might be a good alternative but when DDG wasnt working I tried it on ecosia. which was also down once I finally opened start page it wasn't working either. Its all bing all the way down.

Startpage actually worked for a moment for me. Then I had issues