Weird Bing Search Results

[clarkovitch]

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone can explain what's going on here, because after hours of searching I cannot find anyone having the same problem...

We use Bing search to provide the site search functionality on our website and recently for a particular keyword search, the results include several pages which are not on our site: they are on completely different domains! You can replicate it by going to bing.com and using the "site:" operator together with that keyword. Again, results from other domains appear in amongst the pages on our site.

I cannot find any other keywords which produce this same behaviour: every other keyword I have tried shows only results from our site. However, I obviously haven't tested absolutely every possible keyword combination. Bing isn't "padding" out the results or anything like that, because we have more than enough pages referencing this term on the site, and I'm at a total loss as to why this is happening.

So, I suppose my question is: has anyone ever had this happen to them? And if so, what did they do about it?

Many thanks,

Dan

[clarkovitch]

Hi All,

Just giving this a bump, because on a weird day, this still seems weird to me. Just to put it in a nutshell:

When you do a bing search like this: "site:www.oursite.co.uk "particular keyword", you get results like:

1. Page about particular keyword from www.oursite.co.uk
2. Different page with this keyword from www.oursite.co.uk
3. Page featuring that keyword from www.acompletelydifferentsite.com
4. Another page with this keyword from www.oursite.co.uk
5. Another page but from www.anothertotallydifferentsite.net

etc.

Has anybody, anywhere ever come across this?

Many thanks,

Dan