@strider Very thorough!
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@technically_good @stefan, just checked:
Keyword: neocities
Search engine / position in search:
*localisation is off, shows global results + VPN: Baltics
- DDG / 1st
- Brave / 1st
- Startpage / 1st
- Qwant (Estonia) / not even TOP10
- Qwant (Germany) / 4th result: status.neocities
- Qwant (US) / not even TOP10
- Kagi / 1st
- Google / 1st
- Bing / 6th: status, 7th: GitHub
*No “global” search in Qwant, a specific country has to be selected.
Similar results for “fight fascism neocities”
@stefan, thanks, it's my bread. Also, I have an update from today's results:
- Bing / 1st
- Qwant / still sucks
- Others / same as yesterday
Bing was tested both for EU-centric and US-centric results. It seems, whatever was the issue, it's resolved now
@technically_good Yeah, the trouble here is that eg. DuckDuckGo (not sure about the others) does use Bing.
"Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing."
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources
@stefan @technically_good
Interestingly
- DuckDuckGo claims to directly use Bing
- Qwant claims to only fall back on Bing when it lacks search results in its own engine
And yet
- when I queried "neocities" at DuckDuckGo, the top hit was neocities.org.
- when I queried "neocities" at Qwant, I got only pages *about* neocities, but no link directly to neocities.org - the same behaviour as searching directly on Bing.
Interesting. I tried searching for "fight fascism neocities" (no quotes), Google and DDG show the page I made as the top result, I don't see it on Bing at all.
@stefan Thanks! I've updated the original post with a note 👍