Censorship or Bing's poor search algorithm

[Billy T]

Well, my search for open office returns openoffice.org.nz as the first result (yes I'm in NZ), then a bunch of pages on the openoffice.org domain. Oh yes then the wiki page (as hosted by bing) My guess is that bing has some personalisation in the search algorithm and has decided that you don't deserve to get served up the openoffice.org site...

[CreepinJesus]

Bing from Australia - I get openoffice.org.au as the first result for "openoffice".

[Tim Yen]

yep fine for me too in australia

[Member 3717204]

From Ireland and Bing.com openoffice.org gives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page java.com/en/about/openoffice.jsp as the top three results and no openoffice.org. Tried many things. No results.

[werD]

I think the crawler got bugged. I just did a search for site:www.openoffice.org the first two pages look strange.. but page 3,4 and 5 are definitely bugged.. oh and bill gates probably deleted it too http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Awww.openoffice.org&first=1&FORM=PERE[^]

DrewG MCSD .Net

[The Kings Servant]

Except that it is written:

Sometimes this happens when the host notices overactive crawling from particular bots and blocks them. This is always something that a site owner who uses shared hosting should watch out for....

How is it the site owners problem when a search engine's bot is "overactive"? If the problem is not censorship, it is the poor search algorithm which keeps searching the same root page and yet is not "overactive" on the non-root pages. Unless the bot visits the root and then the first link, goes back to the root then the second link, then back to the root.... Hence, every non-root page gets visited once but the root page gets as many visits as there are links from it and eventually, the bot gets blocked from the root page for "overactivity" but exactly whose fault is that? A smart bot would visit the home page once, get all the links and follow them once and remember where it came from and will not follow a link back to the home page. I blame the search bot! It happens for Microsoft also. No root page. :-D

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[cwp42]

I can't agree - I found this: www.whydata.de/cwp42/Bing-Open-Office1.JPG

cwp42

[FireFly_74]

www.openoffice.org - if I type it into the address bar, has been sitting "loading" for about two minutes. I'd say there is a problem with the site. If Bing has recently tried to index the site and got nothing back, then you can't blame bing for removing it from the index.

[ToddHileHoffer]

True but the site was working fine and it is working fine now. I'm not sure that was the issue.

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[FireFly_74]

Bit strange, it's still not working for me. Firefox (or IE) just hangs with "Waiting..."

[mrchief_2000]

It's there, just at the bottom. :)