Something that I have noticed for about a year: The wikiTI website (https://wikiti.brandonw.net/) does not seem to be indexed by Bing, the Microsoft search engine.

I would not mind that so much, except that I don't use Google search anymore. And Bing is the search index that powers *other* search engines: DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, AOL, Kagi, and probably a bunch of others. So the following search "site:wikiti.brandonw.net bcall" returns a completely empty result for bing.com, yahoo.com, duckduckgo.com, and aol.com (I don't have a kagi.com account to check).

My default search engine is DuckDuckGo. Initially this was for privacy reasons, but now Google Search result is so full of ads that I actually prefer DDG over Google. Every time I search for something on WikiTI, I get an empty search result, then have to double-check my spelling, then remember to append a 'g!' to redirect to Google. It happens often enough that I would appreciate this being fixed.

I believe the WikiTI maintainers hang out on this forum. Could someone forward this to one of them, and ask them if they can somehow persuade Bing to index their website?

WikiTI is linked to by many places, and it's not a particularly obscure site—I wonder if something decided it doesn't meet quality guidelines.

In the meantime, you can probably add WikiTI's search functionality as a search engine of sorts in your browser. Firefox, for example, lets me add it as a search bookmark. After selecting the option in the screenshot below, the browser will use this form to search when I use my keyword wikiti in the search bar.

It could be a problem with Bing. Or it could be that WikiTi has a spam blocker that is overly aggressive, for example, blocking IP ranges which now contain the Bing crawler bots.

I did not know about the Firefox's Search Keyword Bookmark feature. Neat. But pointing that to WikiTI's MediaWiki search engine is not really useful because it does not seem to support page-ranking, so the search relevance looks like something out of the late 1990s. But now that I see how the Search Keyword Bookmark works, I can point it to another search engine, say search.brave.com (which claims to be privacy preserving), and bind the 'wikiti' keyword to the following:

https://search.brave.com/search?q=site%3Awikiti.brandonw.net+%s

That's probably a good workaround for me right now.

In the long term, it might still be useful to solve this problem, since Bing powers about 10% of the searches on the internet.