I use Bing, so this is disappointing - but we can only assume it is a mistake, and the most interesting part of this story will be how quickly Microsoft reverts & responds.
Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
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Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#22Funny, the ad I see displayed with the search results is:
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#23I reckon this is because the ranking algorithm deranked them when their click through from bing rate declined after the sudden publicity storm. Their #visitors delta probably went very negative after everyone stopped clicking links from various news sites.
They probably shot themselves.
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#25Ruslan Kogan must be rubbing his hands with glee at this development - more pricele$$ free publicity for his site.
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#26I reckon this is because the ranking algorithm deranked them when their click through from bing rate declined after the sudden publicity storm. Their #visitors delta probably went very negative after everyone stopped clicking links from various news sites. They probably shot themselves.
Doubtful. Even searching "site:kogan.com" pulls up zero results while "site:kogan.co.uk" pulls up 1.9k results.
Kogan.com is completely gone from their resultset.
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#27Anyone else thinking they added a robots.txt entry for bing to disallow, waited to get de-listed then removed the offending robots.txt entry, posted this news article knowing bing would pick them back up in a couple of days?
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#28If this is real, then Microsoft would is going to get into a long legal battle. I hope this is some technical glitch & not some random angry guy at Microsoft
There's only been one case I'm aware of where a site was penalized in search rankings and filed a lawsuit. That site lost. The only complaint that the judge seemed to find valid (although ultimately dismissed) was anti-trust allegations. Microsoft wouldn't be in that position in search.
In short, there's no legal precedence for filing damages if you're dropped by a search engine. It would be hard to imagine what, if anything, Kogan would argue successfully.
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2007/03/kinderstart_v_g...
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#29Anyone else thinking they added a robots.txt entry for bing to disallow, waited to get de-listed then removed the offending robots.txt entry, posted this news article knowing bing would pick them back up in a couple of days?
If that's what they did (no telling really) that would be pretty clever PR wise.
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#30Microsoft themselves want their users to upgrade to latest browsers (see: http://www.ie6countdown.com/ ) so the idea that they would take issue with someone else doing this (so much so that they'd remove them from bing) seems a bit.. unlikely.
For those who are not familiar with Mr. Kogan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogan_Technologies#Controversie...
As another commenter suggested, I would not put it past him that he blocked bing somehow just for a publicity stunt. The wikipedia article hasn't even caught up with last week's stunt (or there are just so many that it cannot list them all): http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/kogan-launches-campaign-to...