I don’t believe it’s a glitch.
Someone/some thing at Bing has flagged the v1e.com site as problematic for some reason, and is deliberately not showing site results in searches.
Like all the other search engine providers, they make a habit of being unresponsive especially to small sites and where nothing is calling out their bad behavior to the masses. Show up on a high-readership platform and generate stink and they’d fix it straight away.
Aside that, F* Off is the way they handle this.
But from what i read if that were the case it is supposed to be told to him in the webmaster tools.
No, the tools only tell you if they have never indexed your site or have a robots.txt block or something obvious. It has no options for why it has been taken off.
Any chance @azab2c can escalate it?
It would be nice if they explained or acknowledged why it has been delisted.
Brings home that when it’s free you’re not the customer you’re the product. 
@vicious1 So sorry. I wish I knew something to help. Shaking my head. Should never be like this.
I kinda understand it all, but even youtube will at least give you a generic “you violated XXXXXX” it might not give any good details but them just not answering for two weeks is a huge bummer and strikes me as extremely odd as I verified myself with a DNS edit. I understand not answering all requests but at least answer the bing verified owner.
Oh, I forget about that. Got any friends in the bing building??
I notice that there is a V1 Engineering LLC in Seattle WA that uses the www.V1-engineering.com domain. Perhaps that is at the root of the issue?
@vicious1, have you trademarked your company name? It seems like there are two V1 Engineering businesses on the Internet.
We are good as far as I know we have emailed several times. I assume they are not the issue.
Nope, that is v1engineering.com, not v1e.com
checking all kinds of things, did you know v1e.com expires in 59 days?
It auto-renews, It should be on a 3 year cycle.
wow, this is a very troubling read.
I was not aware that duckduckgo used Bing for its search engine, that to me is troubling, I HATE bing.
But in the end, it says that Bing Support helpe them.
UPDATE (August 28, 2023) : I received correspondence from Bing Support confirming that we have been restored to Bing’s index.
Yeah it is a pretty wild feeling. I really was not aware they could, or would, do something like this. Seems obvious now but i really don’t trust the search now. They did not move my position in search, they removed it…a direct search for v1e.com does not show the domain even exists. That is very wild to me.
I knew my search ranking is variable but I did not think it was removable.
I use ddg for search and it is troubling they mostly use bing. I thought they were trying to aggregate several. But that may have changed if google shut down their api.
The traffic that was coming through ddg may not have been fully represented either. I use ublock and it blocks most analytics cookies. So it wouldn’t be reported if I was getting to v1e via ddg/bing. It may look like you are losing out on 10% of your traffic. But it may be much more, if more ddg/bing users are using ad blockers.
I have exactly the same practice.
I use DDG too, although I often use the !g option to get more rational results. But v1e.com isn’t showing up on DDG for me at the moment. I have bookmarks, auto-complete, etc. But if I force it to search, I get printables listings, social media, etc. But no v1e.com.
Probably not, will ask around. Well this situation sucks. Sorry to hear you’re encountering bing.com excluding v1e.com with no notice, and not being given clear transparent reason(s) as to why, or a clear path for fixing.
Left MSFT 5yrs ago, switched from IE/Bing to using Chrome/Google ~10yrs ago. Today, to get $hit done, I use Win11/Chrome and increasingly ChatGPT more than Google search.
I respect and like what DuckDuckGo provide their Customers. But have accepted “true privacy” as a fantasy, we’re lambs mostly unknowingly destined to be manipulated by AI/ML algos. Personally, dislike the overly profit focused suffering/harm that many big companies cultures end up enabling and supporting. Sadly, not enough CEOs/Execs experience meaningful consequences for neglecting their Customers. Hopefully things change to help reduce overall suffering, and maximize Customer joy.
Well said. You rock, @azab2c !
