IndexNow From Microsoft Bing and Yandex

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Microsoft has announced a new initiative "IndexNow" from Microsoft Bing and Yandex. This is "offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has support from Microsoft Bing, Yandex."

IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results.

Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t crawl every URL often. With IndexNow, search engines know immediately the "URLs that have changed, helping them prioritize crawl for these URLs and thereby limiting organic crawling to discover new content."

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[blend27]

....Without IndexNow, it can take days to weeks for search engines to discover that the content has changed, as search engines don’t ...

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Same old song....

[NickMNS]

One word, Desperate.

Bing is crawling my site the most out of the big bots, unfortunately it sends only a small fraction of the total traffic. I really don't see the point. Do they expect me to encourage them to eat up more resources, for the same anemic traffic.

[tangor]

The remove url might be an asset down the line. If one can actually get a search engine to forget a page it is told no longer exists...

[martinibuster]

Do they expect me to encourage them to eat up more resources, for the same anemic traffic.

The point is to use LESS resources.

The goal is to reduce the amount of crawls. This means no random/discovery crawls, they'll only crawl when you fetch them via the API .