Post #161138
2026-01-28 08:03 UTC
Replies (17)
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@Auster@thebrainbin.org 2026-01-29 01:27
So, going by the blog post, the entire domain got sanctioned due to a few (proportionally speaking) malicious domains? If so, wtf 💩 Also, for things like this, I'd suggest linking to sites one uses (Neocities or otherwise) between one's friends and followers so discovery of sites flow through the chain of trust. Not as fast discoverable, but avoids algorhithm decisions like this, or shadow ban, or ill-intended sites paying to appear higher, or so on.
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@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-28 14:18
Before you say haha no one is using bing... Your beloved DuckDuckGo uses bing results and this means it's censored there too. And it's not only about the start page https://neocities.org/ (which can be found with DuckDuckGo via Wikipedia Snippet). None of the hosted sites are in the index.
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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-28 08:58
...people use Bing? *checks browser marketshare... Ha, Bing doesn't even have 5% marketshare. Oh no, Firefox has less than half of Bing's marketshare. Fuck me, what's wrong with internet users. I know Firefox isn't perfect, but there's other forks of it for various use-cases.
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@eleijeep@piefed.social 2026-01-28 10:36
Wouldn't want unmoderated* information and opinions appearing in Microslop search results now would you? *unmoderated by Big Tech Fascist AI Filters
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@yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-01-28 17:22
Bing/DDG has also blocked the emulation wiki (https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/) for some reason. I noticed when I forgot the domain and tried looking for the site. For the record, Google returns it as the top result.
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@hector@lemmy.today 2026-01-28 15:40
Why?
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@Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2026-01-28 16:50
Man, who could hate Neocities? There’s so many gorgeous “retro” websites on there. Brings me back to my childhood.
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@baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-28 13:15
_laughs in Kagi_
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@Mwa@thelemmy.club 2026-01-28 10:51
will ig am switching off DDG
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@ptmb@piefed.zip 2026-01-28 11:51
I was hoping qwant, with its own (partial) search index, would be immune to it, but searching for neocities also doesn't show any results for neocities.org there unfortunately, or at least it did not for me.
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@mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-01-28 16:13
While I think it's shitty that they did this, part of me also kind of likes it. The most resilient form of web behavior includes bookmarking sites and discovering new sites by them linking to each other, and also via conversation with others online, rather than getting all your sites from a search engine. I get that search engines are useful for lots of things. But maybe this will help kick people's search engine addiction if they realize there's lots of good stuff out there that you can't trust a search engine to surface.
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@neblem@lemmy.world 2026-01-29 00:22
Looks like its showing in the DDG results for me this evening.
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@dlrdp@lemmy.poudlar.do 2026-01-29 01:39
Damn they rarely even speak, previous post is from 4 years ago
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@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 08:22
Oh no! Bing got to this guy too!
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@otterpop@lemmy.world 2026-01-28 12:59
If you're savvy, look at blocking them at the dns level with software like pihole or blocky.
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@W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-28 09:28
Just install it and change the icon. Wait, what browser are they using that doesn’t support plugins? IE11?
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@W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-30 00:16
Found your computer 