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Re: by dazc on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:55AM (#35677310)
Sites are delisted from Bing & DDG as a result of negative SEO attacks. I've experienced this multiple times and responded to a couple of threads on HN about it.

The attacker doesn't care about your Bing listing, it's an unintended coincidence of an attempt to get your site deindexed from Google search that doesn't work.

Google ignore bad links to your site, Bing don't.

After two years I can confidently conclude that MS have done a great job of hiding this 'defect' and virtually nothing regarding the root cause.

In my experience, the sites come back on their own eventually but with a lot of really weird URLs being indexed first (a sure sign of the original attack).

Re: by nothingeasy on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:24PM (#35679053)
Wow, TIL "negative SEO attacks."
Re: by nadermx on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:27PM (#35679087)
Has happened to my site as well, I gave up after doing around the same thing.. https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Apdf.to
Re: by tough on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:32PM (#35679143)
Seems like a great extortion business

/s

Re: by nixcraft on Sunday April 23, 2023 @04:56PM (#35680524)
I think that is not the correct syntax. I just search for redhat.com and suse.com

https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Aredhat.com

https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Asuse.com

Re: by mdaniel on Sunday April 23, 2023 @05:53PM (#35681044)
It must be doing some kind of personalization for you, because when I load those two links in an incognito window, the first page is made up entirely of links to the constrained domains. That differs from the parent's link which in an incognito window just displays some kind of bing-looking error message
Re: by inafewwords on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:31AM (#35683672)
Old black hat SEO. Was never in that industry too seriously, but I did keep looped in my tech news as a kid as it gave me another perspective on the growth of the internet