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81 points diggan | 9 comments | 05 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 1.142s | source | bottom
1. pxc ◴[05 Jul 25 16:45 UTC] No.44473908[source]▶
> Annoyingly, Microsoft also back in May decided to just remove us from Bing News and massively deranked us, following 1 single hour downtime due to a data centre problem and show no signs of putting us back in - which was a bit of a blow (so we barely appear in anything like DuckDuckGo now). I've tried explaining this to Microsoft, and they just don't care.

Maybe they don't care. But sidelining publications like this works in Microsoft's favor, whether they're explicitly/deliberately working towards that outcome or not.

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2. yegg ◴[05 Jul 25 17:06 UTC] No.44474056[source]▶
FWIW we (DuckDuckGo) have largely moved in another direction for news results, at least in the US so far.
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3. Y_Y ◴[05 Jul 25 17:57 UTC] No.44474383{3}[source]▶
> largely moved in another direction for news results, at least in the US so far.

So you do mostly use Bing for news, but have partially replaced it in the US?

Why speak in riddles?

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4. johnisgood ◴[05 Jul 25 18:15 UTC] No.44474488{4}[source]▶
I did not consider it to be a riddle, but it would be nice to know what they are using for X (News, Photos, whatever). Is this information available anywhere? I went to DDG's News, but could not find anything related to Bing.
5. kirab ◴[05 Jul 25 18:43 UTC] No.44474651[source]▶
Microsoft started a huge Xbox "OS" push, against Steam Deck and Linux on Handhelds, and coincidentally they removed GamingOnLinux from Bing News.

Hmm..

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6. 3eb7988a1663 ◴[05 Jul 25 19:11 UTC] No.44474832[source]▶
I am more curious - do web hosts get any kind of analytics from the search engines or is this just an empirical observation of how traffic has decreased over a unit of time?
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7. diggan ◴[05 Jul 25 19:18 UTC] No.44474869{3}[source]▶
Unless the browser is configured otherwise, there is a referrer ("referer" to be precise) header that the server receives when you go to a page from a link. This is how it could look from the webmaster's point of view: https://plausible.io/plausible.io/sources
8. pjmlp ◴[06 Jul 25 06:43 UTC] No.44478392{3}[source]▶
I keep telling it will be the second coming of how Netbooks went down, but people are too busy praising Valve for translating Windows APIs, instead of actually building a gaming ecosystem on Linux technologies.

The same kind of technologies that power Android NDK, and to lesser extent PlayStation Orbis OS, with its FreeBSD roots.

AAA Game studios don't see a reason for directly supporting Linux and if Valve is willing to do that for free, even better.

Learn from OS/2 and Netbooks history.