Bing powers so much of the alternative (meta)sphere
Mojeek Search Engine
The alternative search engine that does what’s right, we believe that privacy is a human right and that a true alternative must have its own index 👉 https://www.mojeek.com/
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Correct; there are many such cases, this map shows a bundle of bing proxies
1·27 days agoy thankyou!
351·1 month agoharm google
what is the problem?
sir this is not x, the everything app
“hello i am u/NotBillGates and I agree with this message”
Blink and it’s GONE
*or Bing depending upon where you are
the the quick answer type stuff is coming from DDGs systems.
which doesn’t an index make, more like a fetcher for specific data
nope, it was yandex + bing, now bing: https://www.searchenginemap.com/
qwant and ecosia are both using bing, with the latter using google sometimes: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ map needs updating for that latter point
indeed so, thanks for flagging this I’ll get it raised so we can see what’s going on there
probably a sample size issue, we crawl and index everything we are able to; have seen many of this kind of site in the past, and finding them is something that other people have said they enjoy about mojeek
our preference is always to find out why the block is happening and try to convince people it should be otherwise; widespread abuse of robots.txt does no-one any good, having been crawling and indexing for so long it’s a standard that we understand and are quite fond of
we can see some of the perils and pitfalls of it too, but web builders need to be given some tools and assurances that those tools will work for them
IP already hits a wall, also better to not get a reputation as a bad bot, it’s taken a while to get known for being friendly and respecting rules, to us you should follow robots
We make money from our API, what they’re referencing is a beta ads programme which was running
Agree to disagree here, but I’ll refer to Cory Doctorow for a contextual vs behavioral/tracking ads comparison, one which is very good: https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#contextual-ads (applied to the media, but the general thread is relevant)
which language are we talking?
Reddit doesn’t allow us to crawl: https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt
*two hours (now)