Testing the search engines: quickest to index, more site: searches

Who was the quickest at indexing any part of Autocade World?
 
January 17: Google—probably because I had obtained an SSL certificate
January 21: Internet Archive, because of ‘certificate transparency’
[January 30: First public mention by me on Facebook to get our members off there]
January 31: Bing
February 2: Mojeek
 

Yandex, Baidu, Brave and have not yet indexed the site or shown it in their results.

It is a bit creepy for Google to have indexed it prior to launch, and the Internet Archive’s copies are pretty bad, showing the site in a semi-finished state with sample template material still there. Google has also indexed sample pages.

Which brings me on to another query. How many pages does each search engine have of the main autocade.net domain?
 
Mojeek: 752
Google: 2,430
Bing: 5,720
Baidu: 2,620
 

Pretty disappointing all round considering there are more than 5,200 models on there, and my sense is that most have dropped—except for Bing, which has recovered from 2022’s near-death experience with a figure closest to the actual number.

I realize the others could fall depending on what links are on the home page at any given time, but I had expected better.

The last documented numbers on site:autocade.net on this blog (March 2023) are 2,960 for Google and 3,277 for Mojeek. So why the drop?

For this website, we have:
 
Mojeek: 1,206
Google: 1,420
Bing: 4,160
Baidu: 811
 

Again, Bing wins, but it only showed me the first 2,000. There are only 1,500 or so blog posts but by the time you count category pages, there are more. I’m not sure how accurate Bing’s claim is. If it’s true, then I’m as surprised as you are, though its recovery is in line with what I observed last week when I ran a bunch of different site: searches through Mojeek, Google and Bing.

It is too late though, with trust having been damaged, and I’m quite happy using Mojeek as my default, rather than the Duck Duck Go skin of Bing.


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