Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
AI summary of the linked articleGoogle is now the only search engine that can surface Reddit results, after Reddit restricted crawling by other search engines. According to the article, search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek and Qwant show no results from the last week when searching "site:reddit.com," though older results still appear. The article says the change comes after Reddit locked down its site to stop scraping for AI training data, a practice only Google can currently do under a multi-million dollar deal. Colin Hayhurst, CEO of the search engine Mojeek, said Reddit is "killing everything for search but Google." |
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3 comments  naomiii.ethSubmitter Actually with this link you can read the whole thing: https://www.404media.co/email/4650b997-7cc3-4578-834c-7e663ed3d516/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter Only realized that after submitting. Pretty messed up how Google furthers its Monopoly based on community contributions to Reddit.. Since Google is practically unusable without Reddit results, it's a reasonable move (but not good for the rest of the search engines ofc). Wondering how much Reddit will get - first, they made a deal with OpenAI to train their models on Reddit's content, and now this deal with Google. I guess this is the fate of a public company - they need to make money. naomiii.ethSubmitter True for Google, it seems sensible but in terms of Reddit and eventually end-users this level of power in one company seems not that great haha |
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