So, there are two separate issues, one is the ‘Safe Search’ setting filtering naughty words and the other perhaps a site configuration problem? Seems odd to me that BING seems to bring up every other site I try with the “site:xxxxx” except bitchin100.
I use BING most of the time and on occasions when I have not found something I’ll try Google and rarely does Google yield results that are superior, showing me something BING did not, etc. They both use different ranking algorithms and will return results differently. Jeff Birt From: M100 <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joshua O'Keefe Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2022 8:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [M100] Bitchin' 100 on Bing On Nov 13, 2022, at 6:07 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[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.
