https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/techdirt-has-been-deleted-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/ [ ] Techdirt. [ ] * Sign In * Register * Preferences Techdirt [ ] * TechDirt * GreenHouse * Free Speech * Deals * Jobs * Support Techdirt [podcast-ti] Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone Elon's 'Zero Tolerance' Policy On CSAM Apparently Does Not Apply To Conspiracy Theorist Accounts He Likes Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo [techdirt] Techdirt from the yeeted-from-search dept Thu, Jul 27th 2023 10:51am - Mike Masnick A few months ago, Jack Yan pointed out to me that if they did a search for Techdirt on DuckDuckGo, it showed only one single link which was (bizarrely) to a random story from like eight years ago. There were literally no other results for Techdirt. I replicated it, but was travelling, and by the time I went back to write about it a few days later, everything seemed back to normal (in the interim there were a few days where it just found a couple hundred Techdirt posts). Jack wrote a short blog post on his own site about it. This morning, however, someone alerted me to the fact that DuckDuckGo currently shows zero results for Techdirt. Not even some random old article. Zero. None. Zilch. [6b3494cb-9] Of course, DDG is powered by Bing, so I went to check Bing, and sure enough there's nothing there: [43661fc7-1]Bing appears to have deleted all links to Techdirt. Though at least it tells you that "some results have been removed." Though it doesn't say why. At no point did anyone at Bing let us know that we've been removed from the search index. And, of course, BIng has every right to kick us out of their index for whatever reason they want. But it does seem odd. So, hey, if you happen to know anyone at DuckDuckGo or on the Bing team, maybe ask them why they booted Techdirt? Apparently, I'm not the only person this has happened to. Anyway, in the meantime, I figured I'd ask Bing's space aged AI chat bot if it could tell me what happened. And... it actually provided a decent answer, first pointing to Jack Yan's blog post: [3f0e00a5-f] And then coming up with a very speculative list of reasons why we got the boot: [4807d472-3] I love that first one. Microsoft, a company with a $2.5 trillion market cap, "may not have enough resources" to crawl and index Techdirt? Cool. And the last one is of course possible: that Microsoft encountered "some legal or political pressure to remove or censor Techdirt.com, which is known for its critical and investigative reporting on various topics, such as technology, law, policy, and business," but it would be nice if someone would just, you know, let me know? I'm guessing it's just a bug, but given that many Techdirt readers (for understandable reasons) prefer DDG to Google, it would be kinda nice if they could actually use it to get Techdirt results. Now, of course, if this were a Trumpist nonsense peddler website, I'm sure there would be blaring headlines on Fox News and in the NY Post, and a whole set of hearings chaired by Jim Jordan about "censorship." And we'd be hearing about it for years. That's not going to happen with me. I'm sure the reality is much more mundane. I am guessing it's just a glitch somewhere in the system. But it would nice if it got fixed. Filed Under: content moderation, search, search results Companies: duckduckgo, microsoft, techdirt 62 CommentsLeave a Comment If you liked this post, you may also be interested in... * Elon's 'Zero Tolerance' Policy On CSAM Apparently Does Not Apply To Conspiracy Theorist Accounts He Likes * Court Says It's Fine For Cops To Use Cell Phones To Peep Into People's Cars * Trust, Safety, And Communication * How Would The GOP Feel If Democrats In Congress Demanded Details Regarding How Fox News Or The NY Post Made Editorial Decisions? * 5th Circuit Puts A Hold On Louisiana Court's Injunction Barring Gov't From Talking To Companies, After District Court Refuses To * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Rate this comment as insightful Rate this comment as funny You have rated this comment as insightful You have rated this comment as funny Flag this comment as abusive/trolling/spam You have flagged this comment The first word has already been claimed The last word has already been claimed Lightbulb icon Laughing icon Flag icon Lightbulb icon Laughing icon Comments on "Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo" Subscribe: RSS Leave a comment * Filter comments in by Time * Filter comments as Threaded * Filter only comments rated Insightful * Filter only comments rated funny LOL * Filter only comments that are Unread 62 Comments Collapse all replies [4c203aa79e]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 11:09 am Bing currently shows links to your Wikipedia, Twitter, and Patreon pages, but not the actual website Collapse replies (5) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [39d5f81a1b]ddg says: July 27, 2023 at 11:20 am Re: Oh, same wiki You know who runs wikipedia and twitter, right? Collapse replies (4) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] This comment has been deemed funny by the community. [20220227_PissedO]Stephen T. Stone (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 11:41 am Re: Re: Yes: the Illuminati, in conjunction with the Rand Corporation and the reverse vampires. Collapse replies (3) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it. Threaded [4] [889a9f98e2]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 11:56 am Re: Re: Re: I won't write his name forward but I'll write it backward: Soros. Collapse replies (2) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [5] [20220227_PissedO]Stephen T. Stone (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:18 pm Re: Re: Re:^2 That anti-Semitic bullshit doesn't fly here, dipshit. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [6] [f16b1bdc7b]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 12:22 pm Re: Re: Re:^3 I didn't think I needed the /s but these days I guess it's hard to tell who is serious... Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [0693048b2e]ddg says: July 27, 2023 at 11:19 am Looks like a pattern You must be doing something right, then. It is a pattern now, going on for a few years. Sites with independent from MSM propaganda line which have large following and are influential are being targeted for shadow banning. That includes google/YT. By influential, I mean causing people to think independently on their own, and make their own informed decision on any given subject. Tiktokers are not influencers, since large number of click bites does not mean influence on informed decision at all. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [user-default]Toom1275 (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:15 pm Re: Sites with independent from MSM propaganda line which have large following and are influential are being targeted for shadow banning ...hallucinated nobody mentally competent, ever. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [6ecf150cea]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 11:25 am LOL. The last hit (in the first page) for me is "Emails 'Inventor Sues Techdirt", as a fortune article. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it. [d1fbce6000]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 11:26 am but of coooourse Well this site does suck. And now everyone who took the COVID shot (at your behest) is passing more gas than they normally would, which is releasing more methane into the environment, and causing this ridiculous global warming. Please send more aluminum foil Please! Collapse replies (3) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] This comment has been deemed funny by the community. [aba10218be]Rocky says: July 27, 2023 at 11:59 am Re: Sigh, another shill for the big tinfoil industry... Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [user-default]Mononymous Tim (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:06 pm Re: Re: Yeah.. Please was even uttered ..twice! Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [e62b0729e2]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 3:48 pm Re: I think you should remove the hose from your anus and mouth, the fart gas does not cause technicolour hallucinations. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [user-default]Jerry454545 (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 11:30 am Good grief - good luck All I can say is "good luck". Maybe someone knows someone on the inside - that's your best bet. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [4143177521]anoncow says: July 27, 2023 at 11:34 am It could be a mark of success. If you've done a good job, it might upset someone. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [8b944f8bfb]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 11:37 am I always find Microsoft incredibly useless for getting answers out of. I'm surprised they didn't respond with: "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?" Collapse replies (5) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [iclogo3_real_squ]Samuel Abram (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:29 pm Re: I'm surprised they didn't respond with: "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?" That's actually useful advice. Collapse replies (4) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [137101a98a]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:16 pm Re: Re: No it isn't. It's incredibly patronizing. When stuff breaks on Linux people want to know what distro you're using, what version, what version of software, what you were doing, what time of day it was, whether the moon is gibbous/waxing/full... Every single conceivable detail. Microsoft cronies just love passing the buck. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [6a708906a5]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:23 pm Re: Re: Pretty sure just the first part would be beneficial when it comes to Bing. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [u15740_100x0-1]Manabi (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 1:36 pm Re: Re: Not for search engine indexing issues. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [a8f21165a3]Pixelation says: July 27, 2023 at 1:40 pm Re: Re: Even better advice, if it's a Microsoft product, "Have you tried turning it off and leaving it off?" Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been deemed insightful by the community. [922cd661bb]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 11:40 am Deindexing Maybe someone is submitting [bogus] deindexing requests to Bing, claiming DMCA or using a forged court order, and Bing is acquiescing without taking a good look. For comparison, see Eugene Volokh's articles about people trying to "vanish" his pages in Google. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [1f26b02330]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 11:42 am Maybe it's just me but I've noticed fewer and fewer sites showing up on DDG. Now it's mainly Reddit and a few other big sites. I wonder if Bing is doing a big purge and starting to move to a site whitelist in a misguided effort to reduce hate speech or misinformation or succumb to the latest moral panic. I wish DDG would build its own index instead of relying on Bing. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [iclogo3_real_squ]Samuel Abram (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:30 pm Re: AI? Microsoft said that they'd rely more on AI/LLM vis-a-vis Bing; maybe TechDirt getting removed from search results is a fruit thereof. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [384f48966b]Gareth Simpson says: July 27, 2023 at 11:53 am Have you tried Bing Webmaster tools? Rather than just shouting into the void? https://www.bing.com/webmasters/about Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [c191214bd0]Bud Heal says: July 27, 2023 at 11:54 am What's in a name? "x.net could not be found.[...]" Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been deemed funny by the community. [u1583_100x0-1]Dan (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 11:59 am Not enough shilling Well, we all know how big of a shill Mike is. If he hasn't been shilling enough for Bing, these things happen. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [0ddbd1194a]Daniel Raffel (user link) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:26 pm Some results have been removed When I search bing with domain:techdirt.com I get a message that some results have been removed The results link to a support article with details about why this might have occurred. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [a5cbbf2654]fyrfli says: July 27, 2023 at 12:27 pm well .. i just added your rss feed to my feedreader instead... the good news is that because people are talking about this in my spheres, i found you so you gained a new follower ... in spite of this bs. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [u2515_100x0-1]ECA (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:27 pm You can tell the quality of your success by the Quality of your enemies. HOW big is MSN? as not part of MS. Doing a spider search is HUGE anymore. Wonder if MSN was ready for the internet to EXPAND, and EXPAND, and EXPLODE.. Anyone notice if MSN is more Adverts then Search? Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been deemed insightful by the community. [user-default]NoahVail (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:27 pm yegg at DDG says he's looking into it "(DuckDuckGo CEO/Founder) Just seeing this and we're looking into this now. This is not intentional." ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898217#36898661 This thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898217 Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [user-default]Nic2023 (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 12:28 pm Not just Techdirt Other alternative tech info/news/discussion web sites are affected. Just try searching for techwontsave.us and you end up getting lots of techwillsaveus junk. I have found turning off Safe Search will get you some more results. I guess Microsoft and Bing think independent thinking is too dangerous Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [fd3180e981]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 12:29 pm DDG founder is looking into Per his comment at Hacker News Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it. [1aca95f861]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 12:38 pm Now, of course, if this were a Trumpist nonsense peddler website, I'm sure there would be blaring headlines on Fox News and in the NY Post, and a whole set of hearings chaired by Jim Jordan about "censorship." because it was just a glitch when Twitter shut down the NY Post's account days before a presidential election when they had real evidence of a scandal involving a presidential candidate and his family? you need scare quotes around "censorship" when hinting at real concerns of people who you deem to be beneath you. I mean, why does it matter if some filthy "trumpers" are censored, right? In fact, it matters so little, that you are actively admitting here that you won't even consider the idea that you might be being censored yourself. Also, those scare quotes are especially rich considering we now know for a fact that the FBI was explicitly in contact with Twitter and Facebook to tell them what to take down. So the FBI was in contact with Twitter, and Twitter censored the oldest newspaper in the country's factual story about candidate days before an election and you think it's WRONG to have hearings about that, so the American people can learn what happened? To the point where you won't even consider that Microsoft may have done the same to you, because that might put you in the same category as your political opponents, in being anti-censorship or in having the audacity to notice that they're being censored? You sir, are a coward. Collapse replies (3) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [62317abb44]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 12:56 pm Re: ProTip: Shiny side out Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [u15402_100x0-1]JMT (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 2:38 pm Re: because it was just a glitch when Twitter shut down the NY Post's account days before a presidential election... That was shocking right?! They were completely silenced and couldn't share their crap with anyone! No wait, don't they have a website or something...? ...when they had real evidence of a scandal involving a presidential candidate and his family? You upset you couldn't look at Hunter's dick? Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [d13b732872]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 2:54 pm Re: Re: That last part.... I can't decide if it's funny or insightful. Maybe it's both, something that doesn't happen very often. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [36095361c1]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 12:56 pm After all dirt you published about them, why would they do anything for you? Why wouldn't they want your website wiped completely from all their systems? Rhetorical questions, it is probably a glitch. Nevertheless, I find it ironic that you so much depend on the company you dislike. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [iclogo3_real_squ]Samuel Abram (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 1:04 pm Re: After all dirt you published about them, why would they do anything for you? Why wouldn't they want your website wiped completely from all their systems? Because that makes their product even more useless. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [user-default]IamNotSure (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 1:07 pm Or it could be a simple Parser Error If I enter simply " techdirt ", it comes right up. Collapse replies (3) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [97faf749e1]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:20 pm Re: They have fixed it, as it did not come up for when thisthe article was published. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [774b3e97a8]David says: July 27, 2023 at 1:23 pm Re: I think it is common with deindexing that direct site name searches still work. It doesn't advertise to people who haven't decided yet which site to find the information on, and it makes the delisting less conspicuous. When told to delist by law enforcement, even the direct search will go away. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [dd88098f01]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 2:01 pm Re: Maybe they fixed it but for me "techdirt" works while "tech dirt" does not. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it. [c80534652c]Matthew M Bennett says: July 27, 2023 at 1:09 pm It was me, I asked them to. No not really but I will note if you think pages should be delisted for "Misinformation" reason #3 would apply. FWIW I have noticed Bing has had much better results than google the last few years. -_ (tsu)_/- Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [user-default]BernardoVerda (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 3:18 pm Re: "Overall, we rate Techdirt Left-Center biased based on policy positions and story selection that moderately favors the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. (D. Van Zandt 10/20/2018) Updated (06/30/2023)" https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/techdirt/ Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [23d0844700]Tom Johnson says: July 27, 2023 at 1:09 pm Found the article about techdirt being potentially censored to be interesting until the article spoke negatively about conservatives and conservative websites. As a result of the negative comment about conservatives, it may be that the search engines are correct in their actions against techdirt. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [u15402_100x0-1]JMT (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 2:40 pm Re: As a result of the negative comment about conservatives, it may be that the search engines are correct in their actions against techdirt. You haven't thought that all the way through have you. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it. [fb0a436cc0]Matthew M Bennett says: July 27, 2023 at 1:19 pm To be serious, SEO often penalizes self-links The algos are always evolving (and I've been out of that game for years), but for a while the algos were basing a lot on in-coming links, and then when the SEO people got hold of that they fought that in various ways, including penalizing self-links, and..... .....90% of your citations and links are to your own articles. You'll say "debunked" and link to your own article, which just means you said the same thing (often a lie) already. Besides being obnoxious and self-promoting, it may well be hurting your score. Probably should get...someone who understands the modern tech ecosystem to fix that for ya. Collapse replies (2) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [334278f033]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:56 pm Re: A galaxy-brain like you must be smarter than everyone else. Me on the other hand, I'm dumb in comparison. I use Mike's links to his previous articles where the links to the original source material are cited. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [u15402_100x0-1]JMT (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 2:42 pm Re: Re: A galaxy-brain like you must be smarter than everyone else. Matty has in fact claimed exactly that before. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [0b74379be6]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:26 pm Hundreds if not thousands of sites get 'delisted' every day, and I'd lay long odds that none of those sites are "alerted" or otherwise contacted about such action. The obvious question then becomes 'why should TD be an exception to that fact of business life?' More to the point, if one can correctly spell 'techdirt.com', then why isn't one simply going to the site directly - why does one need a search engine to find what they've already typed into the address bar? Oh, you're looking for a specific article on a specific topic, is that it? Then the proper syntax is site:www.techdirt.com, not 'domain something something'. (That site:... portion can be placed anywhere on the address bar, it doesn't matter where.) And whereas most browsers, and DNS servers, will just automatically insert the 'www.' portion for a correct resolution, failing to enter it into the search query can often result in a lack of responsive entries. Just sayin'...... Collapse replies (3) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [user-default]Avatar28 (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 1:51 pm Re: Oh, you're looking for a specific article on a specific topic, is that it? Then the proper syntax is site:www.techdirt.com, not 'domain something something'. (That site:... portion can be placed anywhere on the address bar, it doesn't matter where.) And whereas most browsers, and DNS servers, will just automatically insert the 'www.' portion for a correct resolution, failing to enter it into the search query can often result in a lack of responsive entries. Just sayin'...... Doing that makes no difference with this current issue. Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [a01c9eb0d6]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 3:05 pm Re: Re: Hey you, yeah you out there in left field..... It would probably help if you participated a little more often in these discussions. Who knows, you might actually 'get' both the gist and the back-story of what's going on, both here and in general. IOW, keep your eye on the ball. Sometimes it bounces around all crazy-like, but paying attention is the only way to catch the damned thing. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [2210982492]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:58 pm Re: DDG's CEO acknowledged there was an issue which is supposedly fixed now. Just saying... Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it. [e71b52e477]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:30 pm Maybe it's karma for continuing to mock, slur, insult and demean the half of America whose political views you disagree with, MM? And why would you expect Fox News or the NY Post to rush to your defense with outrage coverage over something that you yourself literally admit IN THIS VERY POST is probably: "just a bug" ?? But anyway, cry harder. Play the victim more. Collapse replies (4) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] This comment has been deemed funny by the community. [300481209c]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:52 pm Re: Sir, this is a Wendy's Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [3ea956df20]Pixelation says: July 27, 2023 at 1:52 pm Re: "But anyway, cry harder. Play the victim more." Not possible to take that crown away from the Trump "Conservatives". Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [2] [u15402_100x0-1]JMT (profile) says: July 27, 2023 at 2:52 pm Re: Maybe it's karma for continuing to mock, slur, insult and demean the half of America whose political views you disagree with, MM? If that were an actual thing then conservative media would've burned to the ground years ago. Who's really playing the victim here? Collapse replies (1) Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word Threaded [3] [1a08d32e5f]David says: July 27, 2023 at 3:14 pm Re: Re: "Half of America" only according to electoral college votes (taking the "America = U.S." myopia in stride). The popular presidential vote (which would better correspond to the "half of" claim) or the de-gerrymandered representative votes tell a different story. As for the senate... if you get the same number of senators for Wyoming and California (which has about 70 times the population), talking about "half of America" seems like quite the euphemism. It's a stretch to say "this is like the Founding Fathers wanted it" since Wyoming and California are not even among the original union states. Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [5f02b75e54]Anonymous Coward says: July 27, 2023 at 1:48 pm It just went back up on ddg for me, with a note saying it was an 'official site' (it was removed from the results a few hours earlier). My guess is that they were trying to implement something which accidentally took it down for some reason Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [920cf4e0e9]mgallagher says: July 27, 2023 at 2:20 pm Results look different to me Using Mozilla on Linux (16:19 CDT), the first thing that appears on DDG (under the page menus) is a link to Techdirt with a description and logo. The information box appears to on the top right with a link to Techdirt, description, Wikipedia link and Techdirt social media links. Below are a few not very helpful search results, but the are related to Techidrt. So...maybe temporary or maybe something client-side related? Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word [98483bc93b]Narp says: July 27, 2023 at 3:40 pm From the YCombinator post, this person had the same problem. Months after contacting Bing (apparently fruitlessly), their site magically reappeared. https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/03/25/ my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/ A comment there refers to a LinkedIn blog post which may be relevant to this more controversial site, Bing Exploit Allows Website Owners to Deindex Competitors (not having an account, I can't read it). Reply View in chronology Make this comment the first word Make this comment the last word --------------------------------------------------------------------- [] says: Add Your Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? 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