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0 pointsO1111OOO3y ago0 comments

> What should you do when another site copies your content like this then?

Have we gotten to the point where websites (and their content) need to be verified like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok do for personal accounts?

If so, will search engines be the ones verifying - using this as a new revenue scheme (with the dangers inherent in this... ie; pay to be listed or ranked higher)?

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edgyquant3y ago· 2 in thread

No we’ve gotten to the point where Bing and DDG need disrupted. The answer is that these companies are ruining things not that DNS and simple search is wrong

thewebcount3y ago

I’ve moved from DDG to Kagi.com. It’s paid, but no ads and no incentives to remove legit sites that I’ve seen.

edgyquant3y ago

I have as well and have gotten at least one coworker to do the same.

lapcat3y ago· 1 in thread

I actually did add a Bing authentication XML file to my site, but Bing deindexed me again anyway.

Bing is the problem. It's broken.

linmob3y ago

Can confirm, authentication files don't help. Bing is seriously broken, and their support is all but helpful. This is an excerpt from one of their replies:

> "Thank you for your patience during our investigation. After further review, it appears that your site did not meet the standards set by Bing to remain indexed the last time it was crawled. To ensure that this was not a false flag, I also escalated the issue to our Product Team and they manually reviewed your site and confirmed that it is in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines detailed here:

https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30f....

We are not able to provide specifics for these types of issues but we recommend that you review our Webmaster Guidelines, especially the section Things to Avoid, and thoroughly check your site for any deliberately or accidentally employed SEO techniques that may have adversely affected your standing in Bing and Bing-powered search results."

Before snarking, please check that link and the long lists of things - I did not find to find my website https://linmob.net to be offending their "things to avoid list".

That was a reply to my first ticket requesting re-indexation, later tickets only got what I would call "non-replies".

posix863y ago

No the problem here are Bing & co., their algorithm is clearly not good enough.

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