Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
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Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#2Maybe their crawler identifies as IE7?
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#3Maybe their crawler identifies as IE7?
Kogan's website isn't blocked for IE7, so I could not see how it can be a problem if the crawler identifies itself as IE7.
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#4Maybe their crawler identifies as IE7?
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Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#5"We never waged war against Microsoft over IE7, we simply wanted people to upgrade their web browsers..."
Maybe so, but the splash says "Use a better browser" and lists Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. It would be ridiculous for Microsoft to remove the page from their search results because of this, but at just a glance, and maybe to the untrained user, it could look like the are waging war on IE as a whole, and not just trying to get users to "simply upgrade their browsers."
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#6When I perform a search on bing the first result is the kogan website ...
EDIT: It was the kogan.co.uk and not kogan.com since my country/region = UK
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#7I think Microsoft themselves admitted that they do a great deal of manual editing for their search engine rankings.
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#8Microsoft 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.
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#9I think this is just some random technical glitch that has de-ranked them for some reason at an awkward time, along the lines of Google accidentally marking a legit website as spammy, sending it way down the results. Can it really be proved that this was done directly in response to the IE7 tax? What would the point be anyway? Maybe the storm of incoming links about the IE7 news accidentally got identified as linkfarming somehow?
Re: Kogan.com mysteriously disappears from Microsoft Search Engines
#10When I perform a search on bing the first result is the kogan website ... EDIT: It was the kogan.co.uk and not kogan.com since my country/region = UK
Neither "kogan" nor "kogan.com" return the website for me.