Microsoft Releases Indexnow For Search Visibility - Should We Care?

I try as much as possible to stay as far away from anything Microsoft as I can.

Interesting, but sounds like something Sean would need to adopt for it to be useful here.

Bad link, Jim. You need to drop the "f" from the end of the URL.

OK - so Google maintains the lion's share of all search, somewhere around 90% (depending on the source of the stats). There are numerous sources for internet stats.

Here is one that seems to work (sounds reasonable among myriad responses): "Bing vs Google usage statistics show that Google boasts 3.5 billion searches every day. Bing has over 88 million searches per day, which multiplied by 30 days, results in about 2.65 billion monthly searches on the Bing platform"

That's not too shabby. I wouldn't mind being seen in s a few of those 88 million Bing searches per day...

Don't forget that Yahoo search results are simply rebadged Bing results.

Thanks Bill, I fixed the link.

I wasn't even thinking of FAA implementing this and I don't really care if they ever do. I'm interested in getting my own site and gallery indexed, and I've been trying to do that for a couple of years - it's an uphill battle.

This new thing from Bing (Microsoft) seems like a great idea - give me a way to automatically get my new pages noticed by the search engines and hopefully indexed - instead of relying on SEO mumbo-jumbo and the passage of time. Seems like once a site has been vetted somehow, and found to be worthy, we should be able to stop spending time on often-futile attempts to get indexed.

Obviously, this isn't worth much yet because Google isn't on board. And WordPress would have to give me a way to implement it. So at this point it's just something we might hope becomes 'real' in the future.

Actually, Google has had this functionality for years. You just have to be a webmaster (i.e. have programmed your own website).

It works as follows.

1. Update your website.
2. Update your sitemap.
3. Sign on to Google Webmaster.
4. Ping Google that your website has been updated.
5. Google reindexes/recrawls your website (usually within an hour).

Bing is not that small.

The problem for me is how much work am I willing to put into a blog.

That said I could probably Mickey Mouse MS's api.

What's new about IndexNow is that it would all be automatic, built into platforms like WordPress. You wouldn't need to mess with any "webmaster" stuff.

I already use Google's webmaster site to try and get indexed by submitting sitemaps and URLs manually. It's a PITA and should not be necessary. Just one more way Google punishes small individual players on the web.

Microsoft puts far less effort into bing and search than Google does.

This is one more way for MSFT to keep the work to a minimum.

Google could learn something.

It is unending how Google needs to jaw something to death before deprecating it two weeks later.

I get the feeling that Microsoft will never give up on Bing, and maybe feels its time will come. And that could happen.

Google is no one's reliable partner. And no monopoly stands forever. Eventually, the monopolists anger the wrong people in Congress and the hammer comes down. Or, some new big thing comes along and everyone moves to the other side of the boat.

Everyone is tired of dancing to Google's tune.

@Jim

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Try this link:

https://www.bing.com/indexnow


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