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

submitted 3 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Parts of the Internet now only searchable on specific sites now? What next - charging a monthly subscription to use Google?

This needs to be regulated before the Internet becomes like streaming TV.

[–] tal 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Robots.txt has been around for a long time, and all the major search engines will honor it. Not having a full index of the Web is the norm.

That isn't to say that the practice of signing agreements isn't potentially a concern. Not sure that I like the idea of search engines paying sites money to degrade search results of competitors.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

What isn’t the norm is to serve one robots.txt to one company, and a different robots.txt to everyone else. Which is what Reddit is doing here.