Ok I logged into Bing and added Bitchin100. Maybe that's all I have to do. Also robots.txt was empty so I made it explicitly permissive. I don't think I needed to do that but it should be equivalent.
-- John. On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:23 PM B 9 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 7:21 PM Brian K. White <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> [...] It's like bitchin100 is blacklisted on >> DDG, (and thus, probably on Bing too). [...] >> > > Blacklisting had never occurred to me. Bitchin100 shows up in Google > results, but usually it's not the first result or even on the first page > (like for "Model 100 serial rts cts > <https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=model%20100%20serial%20rts%20cts>"). > In the back of my mind, I had presumed bitchin100 had a robots.txt > forbidding indexing. It was actually a surprise to me when "model 100 uart > <https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=model%20100%20uart>" actually > worked, but I had only searched for that because I already knew "UART" was > used on the page John shared. > > I checked using site: <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Abitchin100.com> > and DDG has nothing indexed for bitchin100 at all. Bing does one better, it > shows no results and reports that *"Some results were removed"*: > > https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Abitchin100.com > > Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any way to see what's going on > without using Bing's Webmasters tools > <https://www.bing.com/webmasters/about>, which can only be done by the > owner of the domain. > > —b9 >
