You use a proxied Bing. If you want a proxied Google (what I prefer), you can use https://startpage.com
Difference to Google is how they position themselves in regards to privacy, and that Google actually built a search engine. Both make their money by providing ad space.
I did no such thing but looked around and found the company had been sold to an advertiser/tracker. It used to work much, much better than ddg:(
And this is educational content, text only, no ads or popups, no SEO hacking. Bing's analysis tool told me only that I was missing the "lang" attribute from my HTML tag. So I added it, but of course that wasn't the issue.
I reached out to them, and they replied saying that the page didn't meet the requirements for listing, but didn't elaborate.
It certainly makes me wonder what content their broken algorithm is missing.
And it sucks because it means DDG is missing that content, too.
This is especially dangerous because it propagates an illusion that there's dozens of engines to choose from. The reality is these three companies control more and more of humanity's ingress to information, censoring what they see fit for political/financial gain.
My own personal website for example is not even listed in the search engine I use. Microsoft support see the issue but have no explanation and escalate and quote “quality requirements” for weeks now. A human review yielded positive results regarding quality. Meanwhile, I see lots of SEO spam on DDG when searching for generic technical terms.
Not so in Bing, it's simply not there. The page exists since March 2021. Bing Webmaster Tools reads "Discovered but not crawled. URL cannot appear on Bing", giving no further reason. Also: "Last crawl attempted 01 Feb 2022 at 19:35", which means that Bing did not bother to retry for months, despite me submitting it manually on a regular basis. Clicking the "Live URL" tab results in entirely green checkmarks along with "URL can be indexed by Bing".
Another example would be my personal site: https://herrbischoff.com. Same issue. That one is listed on Google for more than 10 years.
My working theory is that Bing’s selection algorithm is biased towards large and already popular sites. In the server logs, I don’t see Bing even attempting to crawl the sites I mentioned, except requesting robots.txt and the root page. Bing appears to be excruciatingly slow to update anything but high traffic sites.
Again, Microsoft Support was unable to explain this behavior even after manual, human review found everything to be in order.
I tried deleting robots.txt entirely and got only Chinese crawlers and SEO bots, but still no Bing crawl. All organic traffic comes from blogs linking directly and Google.
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After further review, it appears that your site < http://herrbischoff.com https://ipbl.herrbischoff.com/> did not meet the standards set by Bing the last time it was crawled.
Bing constantly prioritizes the content to be indexed that will drive highest users satisfaction. Please follow Bing Webmaster Guidelines to better understand criteria for most valuable content.
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I think the only solution is education.
Perhaps it has improved recently, but it used to be a plague in crypto - people getting ads for phishing sites instead of legitimate ones, losing money, and Google being unresponsive to reports.
The reasons this is actually potentially bad are pretty deep in the internet wonk weeds, where you get into questions of gatekeepers and provinance of information and it shouldn't be surprising most people don't care about those things: those of us who do have failed to provide them with better tools.
On some level it's a little like saying "my dad sent me an email and he didn't use pgp! Can you believe it!??"
The results are fine for me in day to day usage and I find that Google will not provide me with better results if I cant find it on DDG.
Would it be better if they had their own indexer? Maybe...
i have a guy in digital marketing tell me that his friend does SEO and he does wonders with obscure keywords and shit. that friend is a freelancer and earns a good payday.
When you want to insert your brand in every fucking imaginative keyword as opposed to people "searching for something",
why does internet advertising revolve around everyone assuming every person googling something "WANTS TO BUY SOMETHING"?
The truely garbage content is produced as cheaply as possible (scraped, generated from a data source or generated via “ai”) to capture advertising revenue, often via sub prime advertising networks (or a number of middleman networks).
But to your point, not everyone wants to buy something, and not everyone needs to.
Much of the content out there is simply trying to capture your attention and make you available to some of the worst advertising and ad networks (read scams, lead gen, fake buttons, affiliate crap).
Because people googling SOMETHING are more likely to buy SOMETHING than people googling SOMETHING_ELSE.
Rather I think it’s because everyone who buys ads has something to sell.
Search ads are “direct action”. You click a link to do something. Ads on eg. TV are more about “brand memory” - reminding you they exist. When you watch tv you’re passively taking in information, but when you’re searching you’re actively trying to click something already. It’s a better fit behaviorally.