Reddit Blocked Bing Search & Others But Not Google – Search Engine Roundtable
On July 1, 2024, Reddit updated its robots.txt file to prohibit most search engine and AI crawlers from accessing its content – including blocking Microsoft Bing. Reddit did not block Google Search, which we covered here a few weeks ago.
A Microsoft spokesperson told me last night, “We respect the robots.txt standard. Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits all crawling of their site.”
Reddit told The Verge, “We have been in discussions with multiple search engines. We have been unable to reach agreements with all of them, since some are unable or unwilling to make enforceable promises regarding their use of Reddit content, including their use for AI.”
Mark Williams-Cook showed me that Reddit’s new content was not coming up in Bing Search, he posted about this on X and then several other media outlets covered it before Microsoft sent me this statement.
Reddit also said, “This is not at all related to our recent…
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