Reddit blocks search engines other than Google from retrieving its content – GIGAZINE（ギガジン）
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According to a report from 404media, Reddit, a social message board site, has blocked search engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo from crawling its content, arguing that only Google can retrieve Reddit content and display it in search results.
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https://www.404media.co/email/4650b997-7cc3-4578-834c-7e663ed3d516/
According to 404media, Reddit only allows Google to crawl its content, and uses robots.txt to block Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant, and others.
When I searched on Bing in my local environment, I did get no search results, but I did get some hits for content on Reddit.
However, this only shows information that was crawled in the past, so I’ll go to ‘Tools’ and specify the time period as ‘within one week.’
I got ‘No results.’
I’ll also check with Google.
Then, the…
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