Bing is Microsoft’s search engine, and it powers a number of other search tools as well, so getting your copyrighted work out of Bing’s results covers more ground than it first appears. The process is straightforward.
What deindexing does
A Bing copyright notice removes the infringing URL from Bing’s search results. The page itself stays online wherever it is hosted. As with Google and Yandex, deindexing is the fast way to stop people finding the content, and it works best run alongside a takedown to the host that removes the page at its source.
Use Bing’s copyright form
Everything goes through Microsoft’s Notices of Infringement form.
You sign in with a Microsoft, Google, or Facebook account, which also gives you a dashboard to track your requests. The form asks you to choose whether the infringement appears in Web, Image, or Video results, then to provide your contact information, identify your original work, list the infringing URLs, and sign the good-faith and accuracy statements with an electronic signature. If you want help with the wording of the work description and the ownership statement, our DMCA notice generator produces that language for you to adapt into the form. Only the copyright owner or an authorized representative may file.
After you submit
Bing usually responds within about five to ten days, removing valid URLs from its results. Keep a record of what you submitted, because this content tends to reappear at new addresses, and you will want to file again when it does.
Deindexing is one engine at a time, so file the equivalent request with Google and Yandex if your content shows up there too. And remember that search removal works best alongside a host takedown: our guide to sending a DMCA notice covers that side, and the explainer on what the DMCA is covers why these requests work.