

If you change the user agent to Googlebot (Vanessa used the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin), you see the same nicely rendered home page. When you navigate to as a user, you see the home page as you should. This issue is impacting Yahoo’s index as well as Bing’s. It seems as though the problem is simply due to a technical misconfiguration on the servers. But the home page itself is nowhere to be found. To be clear: Pages from the domain do show up in Bing - a search proves that. He wonders if Bing is “allowing its results to be unduly influenced by either money or corporate policy.” But, upon further digging with some help from SEL’s Vanessa Fox, that’s not the case. Ian McAnerin noticed earlier today that doesn’t show up in Bing on searches for and. While it sounds suspicious, the problem has nothing to do with Bing itself - it’s a technical problem on ’s end.

The home page of, the well-known Microsoft Office competitor, is missing from Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
