On: DuckDuckGo was down

[Vinnl]

I believe that generally refers to all their custom answers, e.g. when you search for "weather <place name>". Nevertheless, those don't seem to work either.

[rekoil → Vinnl]

I bet their engineers are currently discussing how to make any such answers possible without Bing working, assuming the upstream data for them is not in fact also Bing.

[notRobot → rekoil]

If the upstream data isn't Bing then why did they stop working in the first place?

[mda → Vinnl]

No they always downplayed and tried to obscure the fact that it is basically a bing wrapper. Smoke and mirrors seems to be the main business strategy.