Neocities Got Delisted from Bing Search Results

[lakes]

https://tilvids.com/w/225cHDJCTm9i8EmRLHTjNi
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/neocities-founder-stuck-in-chatbot-hell-after-bing-blocked-1-5m-sites/
Bing's AI delisted neocities websites from their search results despite it not violating any of the policies.
Don't worry, it's back after the arstechnica article, but it's still sad that some random "AI" removed it for seemingly no reason.

[Trench_Man]

Moderation should never be handled by a bot in it's entirety, there should always be a team of humans at the other end to catch  issues like this

[BasilABST]

AI wins the day yet again how awful.

I'm glad it's back, though. It's a good thing that those people still listen to backlash, the only way to actually fight against all of this is to keep up pressure. Let's hope that bubble will burst sooner than later.

[candycanearter07]

Moderation should never be handled by a bot in it's entirety, there should always be a team of humans at the other end to catch  issues like this

I agree entirely, the increase of AI decision making has really started to get to me.. The one quote from the old IBM manual keeps being brought up, the whole "a computer cannot be held responsible" thing, and I think companies are treating it as the ultimate scapegoat and blame-washing operation. As in, they can claim any bad decisions are the fault of the AI and that they've DEFINITELY fine-tuned it and it would DEFINITELY never happen again guys

[koiitan]

I think it's not very professional of them to trust AI in that stuff. So many things can go wrong, just like this for example. What happened is unfair both for neocities and their users.

And who knows, maybe other websites have this problem too, big companies should really try to not put AI literally everywhere.