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Bing blackholed Neocities
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
Might not be too devastating if its only bing alone but ddg etc pulled from bing too.
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Prefer using Google rather than Bing, it helps a lot!
What's "Neocities"?
they offered free/paid site hosting and site builder on subdomain of neocities, just like wordpress.com
Also, bing pulled the plug on Cloudflare pages.
site:pages.dev
on bing serves zero results. There were like 100,000+ domains earlier indexed.
I'd say they're more of "smallweb" rather than traditional hosting. Most if not all of sites there gave vibes of the 90s, plain ol' html, minimal css, absurd amount of animated gif.
neocities.org/browse is a rabbithole.
yup. its feels like Geocities era.
it might be some sites were used for phishing or some abuse that's why Bing removed it?
theres another service like neocities.. its Nekoweb.org
Don't think so. If that blogpost to be believed, they say they react quickly to abuse but microsoft just outright delisted them and being radio silence.
yeah.. it read the blog post.
similar fate happened with pages.dev domain for cloudflare. totally delisted. it had tons of phishing subdomains. I think cloudflare is quite prompt in removing/disabling those. But still bing removed ALL.
I've a fun site with neocities. hope it gets back in bing.
a fork of the yahoo geocities which stopped long time ago after the dotcom bubble popped.
Neocities? Bing? How the fuck did I go to sleep in 2026 and wake up 15 years ago?
If it's in response to overwhelming abuse it's probably a good thing for the general public but.. I don't really want the search engine deciding what I'm allowed to see, slippery slope etc.
This is not an easy case. How many similar situations are simply unknown to us? Technically, Bing is a product of a private company, and as a private company, they can block, pessimize any of the sources they don't like. But what about global human rights on guaranteed access to information? You can't make decisions if you don't know some or all of the information, or if you only have some of the information. Just remember what happened during COVID19. We still don't know how many violations of access to information have been committed.
Politician and health authorities had no grip with the reality, because they went to far with censoring non-approved talking point through private companies
Well it was more about managing the narrative than lack of reality grip. Look at the bobblehead in charge of health in the USA for example.
But anyway, somebody needs to protect the old folks like my parents from what pops up in search engines. Some of us don't need it though, and don't trust private corps to make decisions like that.
I dunno what the solution is, if there is one. I run a personal instance of SearXNG, so.
Wow the vibe here is almost worse than in the Ukraine thread can we improve thanks
I could agree with holding the narrative is one of the factor.
However, when communal knowledge interacts with something that undoubtedly true through self-observation (and can't be discounted as mere coincidence), and it invalidates previously held belief. Non-delusional people would change their opinion, instead of rejecting the synthesis.
I appreciate your contribution. And I recommend you to attest whether the decision other people made for yourself or your parents are right or wrong in greater frequency.
Just looked into instance list and found @oloke 's instance
Yes, that's my instance
SearXNG had problems with Google for some time now so I switched to 4get since. But my instance remains operational and I think even Google should work there now.
Right, sometime I had to open a dozen or so instances to find working one.
Very glad to meet you. But, I won't deny looking at the list reminds me of other friends whose instance missing. Afterall, it has been almost 7 years