> On Nov 13, 2022, at 6:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Looks like something in the specifier is broken, a more generic set of terms > works fine.
Hi Jeff, You may notice that the screenshot of results you found include many results that include the text "bitchin100", none of which are hosted at bitchin100. As data, it does not appear to be prevented from being shown. Only when a result has metadata showing origin of a document at bitchin100 does it appear to be "removed" from results shown to users. This is consistent with the behavior described by the blog entry linked earlier in the thread. Bing simply loses entire sites out of the index, for no discernible reason, entirely orthogonal to the content or behavior of the site, the site's users, or the intent of the person searching for it, and Bing's operators do not know or understand why nor even appear to have awareness that it is an ongoing problem. When using Bing as an end user, or using products that incorporate Bing indexing upstream, be aware that search results can be incomplete. The tool has its purpose and place, it's just buggy and not really production-ready yet.
