Derpibooru is blocked from Google and Bing. How do we fight back?

O. Hancock
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Penis
The corporate duopoly has purged, like so many other things, Derpibooru from their search engine. We need to find a way to employ subterfuge and confuse the algorithms into unblocking us.
 
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There is some hope, as 3 of the results on Google actually are Derpibooru, albeit random tag searches instead of the website itself. My biggest worry is that this means that they’re trying to purge us completely, and this is just a way that they messed up. Basically, in theory, they’re well on their way to completely purging us and all mention of us from their results. Meanwhile, Bing actually has no results for Derpibooru itself whatsoever.
 
What can we do to stop this? I’m not a web developer. I really don’t have any ideas of my own, but I’m willing to help if there’s anything I can do.
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@O. Hancock  
Bing literally DDoSed the site several times.  
Google kept listing artists on our site over their own Tumblr / DAs.
 
Might think to revisit the decision at some point as the fandom wanes a bit (and Bing gets its shit in order).
Moonlight Bloom
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Artist -

That kinda sucks. Ever since I found out about the sketchy clause in DA’s ToS (I somehow missed this when I read it), that lets them use your art for whatever, I’ve been planning on deleting my stuff off there and going Derpi exclusive. Gonna be a little more annoying now knowing that people can’t directly search the site.
O. Hancock
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Penis
@T.S. Lightner  
That’s the thing, we’re basically word of mouth here now, albeit with some saving graces. For one, you can at least find out what and where DerpiBooru is fairly quickly if you search for it by name, as it will come with the Twitter, Patreon etc. Also if you search “my little pony image booru” the first result is DerpiBooru’s Patreon. So people who are sort of in the know but not to the level of knowing what our url is will be able to find us. And I’m happy they didn’t just shadow ban us from the internet like they did with Thunderf00t and other people they don’t like. Like you said though, there is still the issue of direct searching not being possible. Or at least I thought so, but now I’m not so sure as to exactly what is possible and what isn’t. But a lot is definitely not possible this way.
 
Also, yay, Twilight is best pony yes? :>
FalcoDash107
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

Twileet Sporkel
Bing literally DDoSed the site several times.
 
What the hell?!?!!?!?1? You’re telling me, a SEARCH ENGINE DDoS’d Derpibooru?
The Smiling Pony
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

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@FalcoDash107  
Not intentionally, but they would regularly perform massive, aggressive deep searches through links and pages that we explicitly banned search bots from, to the point they’d cause performance issues.
FalcoDash107
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

Twileet Sporkel
@FalcoDash107
Not intentionally, but they would regularly perform massive, aggressive deep searches through links and pages that we explicitly banned search bots from, to the point they’d cause performance issues.
 
Well how’d they do it if search bots were banned from derpi?
The Smiling Pony
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

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@FalcoDash107  
Banning may have been the wrong word; web pages can have a line in them that tells bots not to crawl them. For the most part they respect that and ignore the page and don’t chase through links on them; Bing’s did not.
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