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pxc ◴[] 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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1. 3eb7988a1663 ◴[] 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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2. diggan ◴[] No.44474869[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