Microsoft Outage Highlights Google's Search Dominance
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A recent Bing outage highlighted the lack of competition in the search engine market, emphasizing Google's dominance. The incident affected services relying on Bing's API, including ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo. With only Google, Bing, and Yandex maintaining large global indexes, alternatives are limited, raising concerns about dependency and the need for more robust options.
- Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has Ars Technica
- Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search BleepingComputer
- Microsoft Bing Search, Copilot face downtime; users flag issues The Indian Express
- Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds The Register
- Microsoft outage took down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features The Verge
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