|
| ChuckMcM wrote:
| From the article -- _What concerns me is how obscurely the
| results have disappeared from three search engines, which also
| happen to command a fair share of the market after Google._
|
| What the author really means is "they have disappeared from the
| only other English language index in the US." Yandex, an English
| language index hosted in Russia returns the wikivoyage queries as
| expected.
|
| If I were to hazard a guess (and I am guessing here) the answer
| is here (also in the article): _The first result links directly
| to Wikitravel. Wikitravel is the original project and a schism in
| the project resulted in the creation of Wikivoyage, ..._
|
| Based on this piece of information I would guess that Wikitravel
| sent Bing a DMCA take down notice telling them that Wikivoyage
| infringed on their copyrighted material. And as a result
| Wikivoyage was de-indexed from general results.
| cjensen wrote:
| Wikitravel does not have any copyrights to anything, so I would
| hope not. It's all contributor-created content licensed under
| CC-by-SA which is free to copy under certain terms.
|
| More importantly, Wikitravel is basically a dead man walking,
| and Wikivoyage is a living project.
| mivade wrote:
| The bang syntax works though: `!wv malta` sends me to the
| Wikivoyage page on Malta.
| bunnyfoofoo wrote:
| Yeah, it's horrible. If anyone has a way to get in touch with
| DDG, that'd be great.
|
| I've been using !sp to get startpage results with wikivoyage
| queries.
| sct202 wrote:
| I'm not sure if you can do it on behalf of a website, but Bing
| Webmaster Support has been pretty responsive in my experience
| with my own domains, like an actual person emailed me back
| after a couple days. And since Bing seems to feed a lot of
| DDG's index, if it gets back in Bing it will probably also go
| back to normal in DDG.
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