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We very much wanted this! We had people that were ex-Google and ex-Bing who reached out to former colleagues, but nothing came of it. You'd think it would be in

We very much wanted this! We had people that were ex-Google and ex-Bing who reached out to former colleagues, but nothing came of it. You'd think it would be in their interest, too. The best explanation I can come up with is that a failure to notify them of a change makes them look bad when their search results are out of date. Especially if the failures are malicious, fitting in with the general theme of the article.

tech234a 3y ago
In 2021 Bing, Yandex, Seznam.cz, and (later, in 2023) Naver ended up implementing a standard where you can notify one search engine of a page update and the other participating search engines are also notified [1, 2, 3]. [1]: https://www.indexnow.org/ https://www.indexnow.org/ [2]: https://www.bing.com/indexnow https://www.bing.com/indexnow [3]: https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/october-2021/IndexNow-Instantly-Index-your-web-content-in-Search-Engines https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/october-2021/IndexNow-Insta...
0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>The best explanation I can come up with is that a failure to notify them of a change makes them look bad when their search results are out of date. Especially if the failures are malicious, fitting in with the general theme of the article. Should be easy to crosscheck the reliability of update notifications by doing a little bit of polling too.