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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by mdaniel on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @11:47AM (#42127631)
What year was this thing created, because the /.well-known URI scheme[1] has existed for a long time and is designed for this kind of junk https://www.indexnow.org/documentation#:~:text=Hosting%20a%2...

1: https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-...

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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by tech234a on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @09:05PM (#42132418)
It was announced October 18, 2021: https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/october-2021/IndexNow-Insta...
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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by mdaniel on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @11:57PM (#42133275)
The irony of a website from 2 major search engines looking like it was made in the early 2000s doesn't escape me. But, to my original point, there's absolutely no way they were ignorant of well-known URIs
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