Within the past couple of months, searches like “John 5” or “Matthew 6” no longer have biblegateway.com in the results list. Even searches like “biblegateway john” do not give a single result from biblegateway. It works perfectly fine with google’s search engine and Bing. I used to use it all the time for the past couple of years and now suddenly it’s broken. So what is going on? What did the brave indexing bot do to break it?
Strange, indeed. Using a Brave Browser New Private Window, went to:
No trouble reaching that website . . . BUT:
Used Brave Search. Entered as search criteria in the search field (not in the URL address field); used search operator site:biblegateway.com:
john 5 site:biblegateway.com
Results, NOTHING:
NOTE: “Search operators were not applied” because “Too few matches were found”
Searching via DuckDuckGo, no trouble with results:
Yeah it’s really weird. Even just searching for “biblegateway” doesn’t give a single result from biblegateway.com. Could it be that biblegateway intentionally blocked brave’s indexer but allows duckduckgo, bing, google, yahoo, etc to index it? I don’t understand what the point of that would be. But then again, I can’t think of why Brave would intentionally block biblegateway but not other similar websites like bible.com. My best guess is that it’s a technical issue, but even that seems strange because I’m 100% positive that just a few months ago it worked perfectly.
Very mysterious indeed…
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What is the Web Discovery Project?
https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project
EXCERPT:
The Web Discovery Project allows you to contribute anonymous, generalized data.
The Web Discovery Project is designed to prevent us from associating this data with you. This means there’s no data for Brave to sell to advertisers, or lose to theft or hacking, allowing us to promise through technology rather than words.
Brave’s Web Discovery Project is opt-in only, and totally transparent.