Bing Is The Slowest Indexing Search Engine
January 10, 2010 by Pablo Palatnik
I may be exaggerating the title a little bit on this post compared to all the search engines out there, but when you compare the big three (GOOGLE, YAHOO, and BING) Bing is definitely the slowest indexing engine of them all. As they want to go head to head with Google and ‘merged’ with Yahoo on the search technology front, this is something they have to look at and consider very strongly.
As Techie-Buzz.com reports, “It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow. I suggest reading our FAQs stickied at the top of the indexing forum to get some ideas of what to do.”
This comment was made in response to a user query. The user in question had submitted a sitemap to Bing about 6 weeks back. While Google and Yahoo had indexed hundreds of pages on his site, Bing had indexed only one – the homepage.
Considering that the site has genuine backlinks (14 of them according to Bing’s own calculations), it is pretty shabby on Bing’s part to index only one page in 6 weeks. But wait, things get better. Brett Yount, the aforementionedProgram Manager suggested the user to check the FAQs. So, let us take a look at what the FAQ suggests.
if your site is not in the index, please do the following:
1. verify in our tools that your site is not blocked
2. run a site: query to verify there are no pages in the index
3. Copy the URL of the site query and post on this thread.
I will work with you to at least get your home page indexed. Deeper indexing will require good content and backlinks as described in the FAQ.”
