After running my latest round of search engine site: tests, I think we can safely say that Bing has recovered in terms of its index size, and it’s no longer down where Alltheweb was in 2002.
It actually has tens of millions of results for Microsoft’s own domain, and not a few lakh.
This is, of course, assuming one can trust the figures.
Mojeek, meanwhile, keeps improving for most sites, with a few drops here and there. Google is fairly even, though it has noticeably dropped for The Rake, though I doubt its figures were ever in the lakhs or, as Google reported in February 2023, 2,100,000. You can’t trust Google, and it has an artificially low limit of what its search engine will serve in terms of results’ pages anyway, compared with Mojeek and Bing.
Now that I’ve been looking at this for a few years, ever since Bing tanked and took down Duck Duck Go, Ecosia, Qwant, Yahoo and others with it, I took the first test of each year into this table to get a bigger picture.
Microsoft gets most improved, while Mojeek quietly goes about its business, and Google wields too much power.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how GMX, a Google licensee, fared. It seems it no longer works, at least not for me. This doesn’t work on Vivaldi, Zen or Edge.
Paul Hellyer, also here in Wellington, does see results, so it’s not a geo-block. Not sure why our mileage differs.