Microsoft was hit with an outage this morning (Picture: Getty/AFP)
A major Microsoft outage left thousands unable to use its flagship search engine Bing on Thursday morning, with the technical issues also appearing to affect DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT.
Users took to Down Detector to report the issues, with most in London but with outages seen across the UK.
Microsoft has not commented on the issues, which left many Bing users facing a error page and the message ‘It’s not you, it’s us’, alongside a sad-looking panda that had dropped its icecream.
With DuckDuckGo affected and, reportedly, ChatGPT, it seems the problems have spread to its application programming interface.
On X, formerly Twitter, DuckDuckGo wrote: ‘Announcement: We’re currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search that might prevent you from getting results. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row…’
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