Oh, the worst part is that was not from the verified email, CNAME stuff. That was my first email from the help site. So they will literally take a site down for anyone for no reason whatsoever.
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I wonder if the Seattle based firm has anything to do with it. Maybe Bing was asked to do a takedown? Looks like it’s based in Seattle with OK and NY offices? (This just came up first for me when I search Bing for you from Safari on a Mac.)
Pretty crummy if Bing is fooled by 2 companies with the same name.
I have never seen that one. There was or is a V1 Engineering in Florida, I think. I have had to forward them their mail a few times.
The situation is odd. I get a horrible google review and I can prove there was no real sale and I can not get the review removed, but anyone can get a whole domain removed from bing (and all the other searches they serve) removed with a 1 sentence email and no notice.
One of those things that really makes you worry about who is in control of these things.
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Looking at that again, that company is hardware development…same as the other V1 Engineering. Poor choice of names for them.
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So are they going to unlock it again? This is really bonkers…
I really wish I knew. That is the only answer I have gotten. I added their CNAME to my nameserver and that gets me no priority.
Its funny, previously assumed bing would be far more honest search results since Google ads are such a huge business. Now how can I ever trust them.
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This is awful. It really stinks that a company with so much power does so little to address your concerns.
The Internet is broken.
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Still no communications, holidays and all so none really expected.
More of the webmaster tools have been approved, just shows that they did pull the plug on Nov 15th.
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This is really shitty. Those clicks a day aren’t too few… Sew whoever put that request in into the ground, you are in America, that should be doable.
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So much for “Monetize your site with Microsoft”!
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I didn’t see that. I wonder how fast they would put it back if I enrolled in their paid programs.
You should do that and then immediately cancel the plan. At least in the EU you have 14 days to do so.
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They will make the cancel button unclickable… 
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You know i wish i could find a bit of this funny! I am very tired of the way things are going. I have been a gmail, umm customer, forever. Someone got access to my gmail, then used it to authenticate themselves to my credit union (had no idea that was available). I could not even pay for support, no option at all. Since I waa a free customer, but am i? Just like all of you, i pay for my gmail with ads, it is not FREE!!! Just like here, something is obviously wrong and detrimental to his business, but obtaining help is a mother… Should not be this way at all. Sucks, sorry pal!
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This is a very large copy and paste but this is what google ai had to say. You probably already saw it, so sorry if it is duplicated:
AI Overview
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If your site isn’t showing up on Bing searches, it likely means Bing hasn’t indexed your website yet, which could be due to several reasons like: a new site, issues with your robots.txt file preventing crawling, lack of inbound links, technical problems with your site, or not submitting your sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools; to fix this, you should verify your website ownership in Bing Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap to ensure Bing can properly crawl and index your pages.
Key points to check:
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Bing Webmaster Tools:
- Account creation:
Make sure you have a Bing Webmaster Tools account and have verified ownership of your website.
- Sitemap submission:
Submit your website’s sitemap to Bing to help them discover and index your pages.
- Crawl errors:
Check for any crawl errors that might be preventing Bing from accessing your site.
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Robots.txt file:
- Review settings:
Ensure your robots.txt file isn’t blocking Bingbot from accessing important pages on your site.
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Website issues:
- Technical errors:
Check for any technical issues like broken links, slow loading times, or server errors that could hinder crawling.
- No inbound links:
Make sure other websites are linking to your site to help Bing discover it.
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Time factor:
- Indexing delay:
Even if you’ve submitted your site, it might take some time for Bing to fully crawl and index your pages.
That is just it, it was and has been indexed. It had traffic, then it was removed. No warnings, no contact, nothing.
I signed up and ran all their site tools and no major errors, everything passes and checks out. Just no reply as to why it was removed, if and when it can get put back. Just that one stupid reply saying it had been removed.
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So i was doing checks and I see shopify at the top. Can they assist you? Do they have ties to m$ to help find out why? Or discord?
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Not that I know of. The removed anything containing .v1e.com/
Shopify will still show up because there are several domains pointing to that. I send customer service a new email every other day.
So from everything i see bing webmaster tools is supposed to tell you why anything is wrong. Is that what the screenshot above is from?
yup, all checks out good to go, it has also just been indexed and my sitemap checks out. It sees everything just fine, they just do not show it to anyone.
Really not sure what to think of any bing based search now. List of search engines - Wikipedia