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Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by brookst »

weakfish wrote: post #64
not2b wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does he know well that this is not the reason? No explanation has been given for Bing's very different treatment of the site than Google's. He says "probably not" because he isn't assuming guilt, but it may well be relevant.

Using the razor, the most likely explanation is incompetence. Bing has always sucked in general.

Or, as others have pointed out, the incompetence may not be with Bing. Websites that take a long time to load, download megabytes of data, and cause CPU fans to spin up are often down-ranked by search engines.

Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by [deleted] »

jeroenhd wrote: post #45

Your website isn't quick to find by Duckduckgo or Qwant either. Yahoo doesn't seem to show much either. Startpage.com does find it, though. I do consistently get your VS Code addon in the first page of search results, though. When I open up your website I don't really see much. A brand name and some download links are all I can find. I'm not sure if there's much for search engines to find, really. Your homepage also…

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Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by chairmanwow1 »

jeroenhd wrote: post #45

Your website isn't quick to find by Duckduckgo or Qwant either. Yahoo doesn't seem to show much either. Startpage.com does find it, though. I do consistently get your VS Code addon in the first page of search results, though. When I open up your website I don't really see much. A brand name and some download links are all I can find. I'm not sure if there's much for search engines to find, really. Your homepage also…

Yeah even if their product is "better than Co-pilot", I will never use it after this brazen publicity stunt.

Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by darekkay »

Bing is known for removing websites for no apparent reason. My website was de-listed for 2-3 months one year ago (personal blog, writing for 10 years, no spam, no ads). It happened recently to another dev blogger: https://daverupert.com/2023/02/solved-the-case-of-the-bing-b...

Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by dan_mctree »

It's easy to underestimate just how difficult it is to get your context indexed and ranked well. Personally I was under the delusion that if you make a solid website, you'll get some organic visitors through search engines from people searching related terms. Turns out that might well be wrong. In the first few months of launching my fairly serious effort website I received a total of 3 organic visitors. While proper SEO and link spamming would surely get me some more, I found it disappointing enough I just gave up

Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by aunch »

misterbwong wrote: post #63

This is pure clickbait and really doesn't leave a good impression of this team. Writing a whole article implying they're not being indexed because they are a Github Copilot competitor when they, themselves, don't believe it is farcical. Title: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website FTA: Now, is it really because we compete with Github? Honestly, probably not, but controversy drums up interest and we n…

I understand the sentiment and why it might come across that way, but we genuinely have gotten a lot more reasonable pointers in these comments than we were able to rack our brains about. And it seems like SEO attacks, Bing incompetence, and Bing actually going after some terms (like Chrome) actually have happened, and the main point here was that we genuinely don't get any feedback from Bing.

Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by mikae1 »

jeroenhd wrote: post #45

Your website isn't quick to find by Duckduckgo or Qwant either. Yahoo doesn't seem to show much either. Startpage.com does find it, though. I do consistently get your VS Code addon in the first page of search results, though. When I open up your website I don't really see much. A brand name and some download links are all I can find. I'm not sure if there's much for search engines to find, really. Your homepage also…

> Your website isn't quick to find by Duckduckgo or Qwant either. Yahoo doesn't seem to show much either. Startpage.com does find it, though.

StartPage is Google and DDG is Bing, more or less.

Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by croes »

chairmanwow1 wrote: post #73
jeroenhd wrote: post #45

Your website isn't quick to find by Duckduckgo or Qwant either. Yahoo doesn't seem to show much either. Startpage.com does find it, though. I do consistently get your VS Code addon in the first page of search results, though. When I open up your website I don't really see much. A brand name and some download links are all I can find. I'm not sure if there's much for search engines to find, really. Your homepage also…

Yeah even if their product is "better than Co-pilot", I will never use it after this brazen publicity stunt.

Which publicity stunt? Not getting listed by Bing or tell about it?

Re: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website

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Post by Topgamer7 »

misterbwong wrote: post #63

This is pure clickbait and really doesn't leave a good impression of this team. Writing a whole article implying they're not being indexed because they are a Github Copilot competitor when they, themselves, don't believe it is farcical. Title: We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website FTA: Now, is it really because we compete with Github? Honestly, probably not, but controversy drums up interest and we n…

If you came from a nation that never gets snow. You practice in a simulated environment with the bobsled, go to the olympics and participate, did you compete?

Competing doesn't mean top of field. It might just mean making enough to eek out a living.

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