Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing some reports that Microsoft Bing is having their own indexing issues. Meaning, Bing is not indexing pages like it use to for its search engine. In fact, I am told Microsoft has confirmed the issue with CloudFlare engineers and it is on Microsoft’s side to fix.
Some thought it had to do with CloudFlare being blocked, but it might be more widespread than just that based on the reports I am receiving both publicly and privately via email.
I asked Fabrice Canel from Microsoft about this and he responded on Twitter with a set of best practices to be indexed by Bing. 🙂
But let me take you through what I have seen. A CloudFlare Community thread has tons of complaints starting the other day. Here is the first complaint:
Folks at WebmasterWorld have noticed as well, here are some quotes from there:
CloudFlare confirmed the issue saying “Microsoft has acknowledge this is a legit crawler and this is an issue on their side. They are working to resolve (by setting it to conform to their published expected behavior).”
So it seems like Microsoft Bing is working on a fix.
I am not sure if this is more than just a CloudFlare and Microsoft Bing issue or not, but there are a lot of complaints about this.
The good news is that it looks like Microsoft Bing is working on a fix.
Forum discussion at CloudFlare Community.
Update: More from Fabrice Canel:
