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Cale Hunt

"We recommend using search engines other than Bing" — 1.5 million Neocities sites are blocked by Microsoft's search engine, and AI support bots aren't helping

Neocities blocked by Bing search.

I'm old enough to remember the rise (and fall) of GeoCities in the early days of the internet. For those who didn't share the experience, GeoCities was a free web hosting platform where you could build your own site within a "neighborhood," which many view as an early example of social media.

GeoCities closed down in 2009, but just a few years later came Neocities as a revival of the old format. Today, it hosts nearly 1.5 million websites created by users. It's a portal into an age of the internet that's certainly nostalgic for a lot of us, but its popularity has been hindered of late by Microsoft's Bing search engine.

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