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Neocities deindexed from Bing (blog.neocities.org)
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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 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.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 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

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 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?

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Probably depends on what AI DDG is using... I switched DDG to noai so I don't see any generated results