Hey I found a link that is supposed to be help from bing:
https://www.bing.com/webmaster/support?ocid=fwsupport&source=helpdocvnext&type=datamissing&action=submit
That is the form I filled out every couple of days last week.
Anything I am reading now just says, it is sort of random. If I did not remove it, it should be back in under 2 months. Chances are high that I will never receive a direct reply as to why, if there even is a reason.
BS policy over there, I can’t help but stress how much using any browser that relies on bing is a bad idea.
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Weren’t you supposed to use Bing to search for porn only because it is shit at other searches? 
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There’s an entire ecosystem built around tracking users and their behaviors. At best, it leads to targeted ads for things people want. At worst, it leads to a whole host of consumer abuses that I won’t rant about.
DDG (using bing) was/is somewhat good in this respect- but it’s something of a lost cause as @azab2c notes so well up above.
Google is notoriously bad in many ways, but good at least about presenting an appearance of fairness to the content providers they index. I’d bet Ryan would have had some kind of response if it were google results. Instead, bing has shown they simply don’t care about trampling a small site and is taking DDG along for the ride.
When I figure out what my next approach is then I’ll move over to that. For now, anything I search for in relation to V1 products or content is happening via google.
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So I got a reply…
"I am happy to inform you that our Product Review Group has succeeded in resolving the issue which prevented your site from showing in our index. After submitting your site for review, the team has decided to lift the block. Allow up to 2 to 3 weeks for your site to be crawled, indexed, and served again.
I am unable to provide specifics on why your site was blocked."
Why can I not have specifics??? If I did something wrong I would love to not do it again…or since I have changed nothing and I have done nothing worng there is nothing to tell me.
So how did I get this fixed you ask???
I paid for microsoft ads. Then I emailed and asked for a refund since my page was not being served.
I was told repeatedly they are two separate entities and one has nothing to do with the other. So I repeatedly told them to refund me since there was no site to advertise. I finally got a higher level rep that asked me to prove I had reached out. So I sent him all my help request ticket numbers.
That got me a reply a week ago, that said “we will look into it”. 7 days later I got the reply I quoted above. How do I know the two are related, because that last reply came with the message from my ad tech with the list of my ticket numbers I sent them…lame. super freaking lame.
I can not express how horrible it is to not get a reason when I am asking for one. The admitted I was blocked, but not to why that was.
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The obvious conclusion is you got blocked because you weren’t buying ads.
For info when I DDG search ‘v1e’ the forums are the 4th result, which I don’t think they were before, so that’s good.
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wow, crazy!
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bet it was an a.i. decision!
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Wow. Shaking my head.
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So someone on the Microsoft Ads team reached out to someone on the bing side of things and told them to fix their sh1t. Whatever crap happened- internal mistake, external griefing, whatever- they now had a reason to respond. The reason- don’t piss off the MS ads folks.
What a horrible experience.
I’m really glad that it’s working for you now, and really sad that it took this to get you a proper resolution (which wasn’t a resolution at all).
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If I were you and had an unlimited amount of time and money I‘d sue them for „unlautere Praktiken“ (unfair practices??) of making you pay to unblock you, basically forcing you into a two-class internet search. I think that‘s one of the cases where it‘d be a slam dunk in the EU with the net neutrality laws as well as the US.
Don‘t we have a lawyer in this forum? There are so many people…
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I doubt Ryan has an unlimited amount of money 
, although I’m doing my best to buy as much as I can afford from him.
For my part, this is really frustrating in that I’d want to support a group that is trying to do something a bit more private (Duck Duck Go) but is using such a bad search engine. I’ll be migrating to some other search.
Sorry you had to deal with this.
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I have so many questions. If I had a Doctor and a Lawyer friend, I am confident the lawyer would get harassed by me 24/7, the doc might harass me…“you really gunna eat that???”. There are so many things I am not sure about legally.
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I’ve stayed at a Holiday Inn Express… 
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That was a really good idea to make the ad guys force the issue.
It is annoying. But they don’t tell you why because they don’t have human intervention and if they give out the reason, the bots they are trying to automatically remove would get smarter. At least, that’s what they claim.
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