Back Off, Bing!

You may have noticed that the site is loading very slowly. Our web host tells us that the reason is that Microsoft Bing is very aggressively crawling the site.

I'm doing what I can to try to remedy the situation — which is to put a note in the site's robots.txt file kindly requesting Bing to back off a bit. We'll see if it works.

And maybe (fingers crossed) Bing will eventually get bored and go play somewhere else.

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Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes. Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over forty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. Contact Us

Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 29, 2016
Category: Weird Universe

Comments

Thanks for letting us know. I was about to email you or Paul and ask if it was under a DDOS attack. M$ must be wasted and hitting the Bing Bong.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 02/29/16 at 07:26 PM

Sure wish Renee Trombley would've Binged me back in the day. I wouldn't be here now, I can Bing you that much.

Posted by Greg on 02/29/16 at 08:09 PM

I Hope that Bing soon gets off the Road to WU. Pour cela, je n'ai pas l'amour.

Posted by ges on 02/29/16 at 10:58 PM

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