Is Bing boycotting Lit?

[StillStunned]

Every few days I do a search for my story titles, to see whether anyone has copied them on other sites. Spoiler: yes, they do. I even reported a while back that at least three, and quite possibly four, of my stories had been used for a book that someone was selling on Amazon.

Anyway, I did a search just now, and it seems that Bing is pushing all Lit hits back to page 2. Even if page 1 of the results only has a single hit, you have to click to page 2 to find the Lit hits.

@Manu is this something you're aware of?

 

[Bazzle]

Every few days I do a search for my story titles, to see whether anyone has copied them on other sites. Spoiler: yes, they do. I even reported a while back that at least three, and quite possibly four, of my stories had been used for a book that someone was selling on Amazon.

Anyway, I did a search just now, and it seems that Bing is pushing all Lit hits back to page 2. Even if page 1 of the results only has a single hit, you have to click to page 2 to find the Lit hits.

@Manu is this something you're aware of?

I just did the same thing with one of mine on Google.

It finds my "advertising" content on x before Lit...but my stuff links to lit?

And I can't add the screenshot as it's too large!

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

What criteria are you searching for. I looked for my latest by name and neither Google or Bing found it as a story. When I searched by my username and the story title both returned it as the top hit: "Making the Crew" vs "Shelbydawn57 Making the Crew".

 

[AG31]

Every few days I do a search for my story titles, to see whether anyone has copied them on other sites. Spoiler: yes, they do. I even reported a while back that at least three, and quite possibly four, of my stories had been used for a book that someone was selling on Amazon.

Anyway, I did a search just now, and it seems that Bing is pushing all Lit hits back to page 2. Even if page 1 of the results only has a single hit, you have to click to page 2 to find the Lit hits.

@Manu is this something you're aware of?

You'd think they'd change the titles if they were in the robbery business.

 

[StillStunned]

What criteria are you searching for. I looked for my latest by name and neither Google or Bing found it as a story. When I searched by my username and the story title both returned it as the top hit: "Making the Crew" vs "Shelbydawn57 Making the Crew".

I have a few stories with fairly unique titles. "Rulk the Rat and the Demon Dagger" ("Rulk the Rat" is usually enough) and "The Countesses of Tannensdal", for instance, and "Too Cold Not to Fuck". Just the other day they were all showing up on the first page of results, now they're all page 2.

You'd think they'd change the titles if they were in the robbery business.

You'd think. The book I mentioned included one story called "Three Dancers", which I assume was my story "Pas de Trois". But that's the only time I've seen it. I also regularly search for unique sentences or names. There's an 18th century play by Sheridan called "The Rivals" that seems to have been linked to my sword & sorcery series "The Rivals" in all the search engines, perhaps because of me searching by the names of the characters.

 

[lovecraft68]

You'd think they'd change the titles if they were in the robbery business.

They know Amazon really doesn't care, so why should they?

 

[StillStunned]

They know Amazon really doesn't care, so why should they?

When I complained to Amazon, the book was taken down in a matter of hours.

 

[lovecraft68]

You'd think. The book I mentioned included one story called "Three Dancers", which I assume was my story "Pas de Trois". But that's the only time I've seen it. I also regularly search for unique sentences or names. There's an 18th century play by Sheridan called "The Rivals" that seems to have been linked to my sword & sorcery series "The Rivals" in all the search engines, perhaps because of me searching by the names of the characters.

A word of advice. I long since stopped searching for places my stories could be found either for free on a knock off lit site or even for sale.

I learned ignorance is bliss because if you keep doing this it will drive you crazy.

That, and its the unfortunate hazard of listing your work on a free site. Lit is the biggest one stop shopping for thieves of erotica.

 

[MillieDynamite]

As long as my name is attached to a story, it comes up from somewhere on the net as the first listing on both search engines. Not here, but where they are up for sale.

 

[jaF0]

I learned ignorance is bliss because if you keep doing this it will drive you crazy.

And the meek shall inherit the Earth.

 

[lovecraft68]

And the meek shall inherit the Earth.

The meek will inherit nothing. That's a lie to keep people meek.

But there are priorities in life, and one of them-for me-isn't worrying that the content I decided to place here for free of my own volition is going to end up somewhere else. Not the hill I feel like dying on.

 

[jaF0]

The Yangs and The Coms will wipe each other out, leaving the Onlies in constant fear of the Gr'ups.

And it won't be in the 24th century.

It won't even be in 2112.