https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Invalid+store+category+name...
Some weird personalization thing? Interested in seeing what others see when they click that link...
Also, that accusation was purely a PR play by Google that IMO Bing refuted convincingly: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...
Bing said they were using internet explorer to monitor users's activity and copy search results. They're still copying Google search results, just doing it through IE.
I wonder why you don't get the same result in DDG since they are supposed to be pulling results from Bing (that 1 results is from April 5th, so not very recent)?
Using Google, I only get 2 results, so it is not much better...
Rather strange to localize results so much (especially when the alternatives are showing many results vs. showing no results)
The results were all on eBay's developer forums, maybe their robots file only allows google?
One advantage to DuckDuckGo is that when searching it was fairly easy to flip and try google with !g and bing with !b after getting no results on DDG.*
It would be nice if bing/google got that feature since it's really handy, and it would be exceedingly nice if they all got the ability to add custom user defined !bang commands.
*However, annoyingly, there was a bug on ddg on iPhone that would clear the search input box when it was clicked to add !g then another error when clicking in the location bar to add the !g that the '"invalid store category name" !g' query was no longer editable instead it was the URL of the encrypted Google search making it difficult to remove the !g and add the !b.
It's pretty easy to check: https://forums.developer.ebay.com/robots.txt
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
User-Agent: sitebot
Disallow: /
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /users/
Disallow: /revisions/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*sort=newest
Disallow: /*sort=hottest
Disallow: /*sort=votes
Disallow: /commands/
Disallow: /badges/
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /storage/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Invalid+store+category+name&t=hf&i...
It popped right up on DuckDuckGo.
I admit I revert to Google for some searches, but 99%+ of the time DuckDuckGo works great.
I think the real difference between the searches are Google looks at he context per user. They have the most data and thus the best searches. At the same time I view that as a threat to sovereignty of nation(s), so for me avoiding Google is worth almost any cost.