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Neocities deindexed from Bing (blog.neocities.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 43 points 8 months ago* (23 children)

...people use Bing?

*checks browser marketshare...

Ha, Bing doesn't even have 5% marketshare.

Oh no, Firefox has less than half of Bing's marketshare. Fuck me, what's wrong with internet users. I know Firefox isn't perfect, but there's other forks of it for various use-cases.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I can't even convince my spouse to switch to firefox to get adblocking back. Browsers are entirely transparent to most users :\

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Just install it and change the icon.

    Wait, what browser are they using that doesn’t support plugins? IE11?

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    For normies Chrome IS the internet.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You’re probably too young to remember that in an old version of windows, Internet Explorer’s desktop icon was labeled “The Internet”. Nowadays, people think Google is “the internet”. My boomer dad says he “has Gemini”… bruh, you’re just searching shit on Google.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    ...people use Geocities?

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    Over 1.5 million Neocities websites; Geocities, however, is dead.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Ok, same question. People use neocities?

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    1.5 million websites that, whether obscure or not, deserve to be indexed no less than the many obscure GitHub pages that Microsoft is sure to index.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago*

    More than I would have thought, but, 1.5 million html documents on a single site - does anyone go there looking for anything?

    I always just made my own sites, or hosted my own, a static site is easy enough. I wouldn't want to be lumped in with a free site. Warned a lot of people that putting your stuff on geocities was going to be a bad idea, and they almost disappeared altogether.

    But you mentioning Github really is enlightening, because that is the other super easy way to make free sites as long as you have the domain name. So if you had a free geocities site, but owned a domain the redirected to your specific page would it crawl it?

    In any case a search engine IS USELESS if they arbitrarily cut out any domain. No matter what they host.

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