Barry SchwartzJul 25, 2024
Bing currently is not allowed to crawl Reddit, Microsoft confirmed (meanwhile Reddit says it has nothing to do with Google paying them $60 million) https://www.seroundtable.com/reddit-blocked-bing-search-37791.html hat tip @thetafferboy
#reddit #bing #microsoft #google #search #ai
Reddit Blocked Bing Search & Others But Not Google

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, w

Search Engine Roundtable
Show threadonreactJul 25, 2024

@rustybrick @thetafferboy Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and StartPage still show Reddit.

Which search engines are affected besides Bing?

I would use them to get Reddit-free results. Bing is too cluttered and ad-heavy.

Show threadMark Williams-CookJul 25, 2024
@onreact @rustybrick I don’t think you set it to “past week”, did you?
Show threadonreactJul 25, 2024
@thetafferboy @rustybrick
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@onreact @rustybrick it literally says “any time” in the screenshot….
Jul 25, 2024 at 3:02pmWeb
Show threadonreactJul 25, 2024

@thetafferboy @rustybrick Ah, now I get it. A bit slow these days.

So it's just new content that does not appear you argue?

I thought they block the whole site.