RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115973555484553518

🤔 This is *not* a good look.

Is Bing actively trying to stifle the #indieWeb & the #smallWeb ? Who knows!

Regardless - what you can do:
- pick a different search engine if you are using Bing. #DuckDuckGo, #Qwant, #Startpage come to mind as great first picks.
- start up your own little #indieWeb #smallWeb site! Share what you like. It doesn't have to be complicated. A small blog, a digital garden.
- seek out #webrings, share content from small/indie sites that you enjoy!

#search #Bing #NeoCities

What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

So I never really looked into it, but I guess Neocities is like... an indy place where people can post their own stuffs?

Anyway, it looks like Bing is blocking them from showing up in the search results. From what they're implying (neo), it looks like Bing is giving them one of those infuriating non-answers corpos love to hand out these days.

You know...

1) We confirm that your account is banned / you are banned

2) We will not reverse the ban.

3) We will not tell you why we did it.

4) But trust us, it was because 'policy violation.'

I've run into this sometimes too, like... I use a VPN and I've got myself banned from some shopping sites for ...you know, like... buying things and paying for them consistently.

Anyway I think I had a point, I dunno... I need more coffee. OH. Right. If you're using a Bing based search then you might be getting filtered results or something. So maybe look at other searches?

I use Kagi, but I bet a lot of people have recommends. Post in the comments (and if you know, tell us who they use to search!)

Thanks to @literalgrill for the head's up on Bing's trash behavior.

#kagi #neocities #bing #SearchEngines #CorposBehavingBadly #microsoft #duckduckgo

So I never really looked into it, but I guess Neocities is like... an indy place where people can post their own stuffs?

Anyway, it looks like Bing is blocking them from showing up in the search results. From what they're implying (neo), it looks like Bing is giving them one of those infuriating non-answers corpos love to hand out these days.

You know...

1) We confirm that your account is banned / you are banned

2) We will not reverse the ban.

3) We will not tell you why we did it.

4) But trust us, it was because 'policy violation.'

I've run into this sometimes too, like... I use a VPN and I've got myself banned from some shopping sites for ...you know, like... buying things and paying for them consistently.

Anyway I think I had a point, I dunno... I need more coffee. OH. Right. If you're using a Bing based search then you might be getting filtered results or something. So maybe look at other searches?

I use Kagi, but I bet a lot of people have recommends. Post in the comments (and if you know, tell us who they use to search!)

Thanks to @literalgrill for the head's up on Bing's trash behavior.

#kagi #neocities #bing #SearchEngines #CorposBehavingBadly #microsoft #duckduckgo

What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

@Tutanota perfect 81 % of tuta user use US search engine,

DDG (Microsoft server), Brave (Amazon server), Startpage (Amazon server), Ecosia.org (Cloudflare server), Kagi (Google Cloud server)

Only mojeek (UK) and qwant (FR) are not US so avoid those US crap.

@Mojeek @Qwant #duckduckgo #brave @StartpageSearch @ecosia @kagihq #eu #sovereinty

@jwz I think Mozilla would do well to take note of what voters are saying about #AI over at #DuckDuckGo

https://voteyesornoai.com/vote

Searched for the film Big on Duck Duck Go. I pressed "continued on Wikipedia" and ended up on a non-existing page for "Big (film)" on Icelandic Wikipedia.

I went back and noticed that Iceland was checked as my location. I unchecked and tried it again and got the expected English language article.

There are levels of problems here but the most obvious might be the assumption that Icelandic Wikipedia has a page about any topic and that the Icelandic article would have the exact same title as the English one. It is, after all, a different language.

#DuckDuckGo

@duckduckgo

please #duckduckgo stop trying to push your lousy fkng AI search results onto me, I hate it, most people hate it. give it a fckng rest.

DuckDuckGo has a No AI version: https://noai.duckduckgo.com. To set it as your default browser in Firefox:

1. Go to Firefox > Settings > Search > Add Search Engine, and enter: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/search?q=%s
2. Give it a title.
3. Then change your default browser to the new one you created.

It’s not perfect, but it’s so nice not getting AI answers / synopses for every search (and seeing less AI-generated images and web results).

#NoAi #ai #ki #DuckDuckGo #DDG #Firefox (1/2) https://getmona.app/rich_text/541678072601