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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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[–] 84 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Before you say haha no one is using bing... Your beloved DuckDuckGo uses bing results and this means it's censored there too. And it's not only about the start page https://neocities.org/ (which can be found with DuckDuckGo via Wikipedia Snippet). None of the hosted sites are in the index.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    Well is that true? I searched duckduckgo and kagi something and neocities and both gave results. Bing did not.

    Edit: Seems like I got lucky with search terms. Often it returns nothing the more terms I try. The AI tool in ddg always returns sites so thats weird.

    Well whateever, I switched to Kagi anyways.

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

    I chose a random neocities website and searched with both DDG and Google. The search was "irony machine neocities" without quotes. Google yielded a result which pointed to the correct URL https://irony-machine.neocities.org/ while DDG did not.

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

    irony machine neocities

    My first duckduckgo result was a scam result site for that domain to check if it was safe, lol.

    Second result was the creators website page that linked back to neocities.

    The duckduck AI result at the top however was a direct link to the neocities page. Interesting.

    Kagi's results were first result was the link.

    I concede though, it is hit and miss with Duckduckgo, even doing site:neocities.org

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

    Interesting, if i do site:neocities.org with a random search term e.g. site:neocities.org anime in DDG I get zero results. In google, this yields thousands of neocities subdomains. Do you get any relevant results in DDG this way?

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

    Yeah, I see that. I must have just been lucky with my choice of search terms. I concede, its worse. The AI function shows them though, which is due to it crawling the tags? I don't know.

    I havent used google in a long time, I switched to Kagi and it works.

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