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Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Is Google really permitted to prevent any other search engine from looking at Reddit?

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

I guess Reddit is permitted to only let Google index it

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Are they though?

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I don't know of any law that says that they can't.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I also don’t know if a law that says search engines have to honor a robots.txt file. I guess we will see what happens if Bing or some other service decides to ignore it.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You can just require a log in to view content, or just flat out auto ban indexing robots.

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