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August 21, 2009

Bing Search Results In Google

Google seems to be indexing Bing search results. Take a look at this query and you will see some of the Google search results leading to Bing search results.

Bing Results in Google

So I decided to check to see if Yahoo, Ask.com or even Bing themselves were doing the same. It seems like Ask.com is also doing this, but Yahoo and Bing are not indexing Bing results.

Google doesn't like to see search results in search results so this is not common to see in Google.

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posted rustybrick in Google Search Engine at August 21, 2009 8:44 AM Comments (6)

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Strange cuz their robots.txt is blocking those:

Disallow: /search?

 

Posted by Jill Whalen at August 21, 2009 08:57

Think the link is broken at the end Barry.
Cheers

 

Posted by Colin at August 21, 2009 09:09

Could it be that these sites have bing links on them, and google is indexing those links? Notice Google only has 450+ search queries indexed- its not like they are indexing the entire bing search results

about robots.txt- that doesn't forbid or prevent google from indexing, it just is a strong suggestion, from what I understand

 

Posted by David Zimmerman at August 21, 2009 09:12

Yea, it is possible that people are linking to those results and Google is picking that up.

Fixed the link Collin.

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at August 21, 2009 09:15

Disallow: /search? in robots.txt doesn't disallow /search%3F - so Google may crawl those SERPs, although they shouldn't index them by their own policy.

 

Posted by Sebastian at August 21, 2009 09:16

I notice that Google avoid this by prefixing their search results with a # symbol. Cunning.

 

Posted by Jonathan Alderson at August 21, 2009 09:30

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