Microsoft Bing and Yandex announced a new initiative named IndexNow that lets site owners ping IndexNow’s protocol to achieve instant indexing with the participating search engines. The participating search engines right now are only Bing and Yandex; Google is not a part of it, nor are other search engines as of yet.
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