Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

Let's two of them die together

Hi, I'm new here. Because of the bullshit with Reddit. Greetings fellow Lemmy people.

I've posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating:

Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

!reddit search term

or:

!r search term

It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.

You can even use a redirect extension like Libredirect in conjunction with this Duckduckgo feature to redirect your search to a privacy respecting frontend like redlib.

Reddit responded: "Only google pays us". The content is not yours. You built this of naive user base that just wanted to share now these fuckers are taking it as their entitlement. As early an reddit user - fuck that place, I'm still angry.

FUCK u/spez

That just means the dumbasses will get even less traffic. Way to shoot yourself in the foot, Spazz.

I wish we had a government that functioned. This shot is 100% antitrust. How is it that this shit is let fly.

Is there a downside? I’m confused.

this is just going to cause indexers to ignore robots.txt

Google just enshittifying even harder. Reddit results in Google searches are often old and anemic these days.

I used to want Reddit threads to show up in search results. Now I avoid them because they are so often a waste of time. More reason to use Duck Duck Go.

I wish Lemmy were searchable better. The search function actually works decently well, but it's not on the same level of actual search engines, it doesn't seem to look for related/similar terms and also relevancy doesn't seem right.

Ah, so Google signed a contract with the company that trained their AI to ... (checks notes) ... suggest putting glue on pizza.

Sounds like a perfect match.

IMO, another good reason to not use Google!

Bing it is then. I hate Microsoft with the intensity of thousand suns but bing is now my jam as long as this lasts.

I work for a different sort of company that hosts some publicly available user generated content. And honestly the crawlers can be a serious engineering cost for us, and supporting them is simply not part of our product offering.

I can see how reddit users might have different expectations. But I just wanted to offer a perspective. (I'm not saying it's the right or best path.)

Still seems to work on Kagi

Makes sense they've spent years curating other people's content and are now selling it..... Oh wait 😯.

With all the botting going on on Reddit, this whole Google AI deal makes me think of the recent paper that demonstrates that, as common sens would suggest, deep learning models collapse when successive generations are trained on the previous generations' output

Just like Reddit's changes last year, seems like a clear and reasonaly expected consequence of the 'our text is so valuable because AI' idea.

The web will probably continue to become more gated and more fragmented as a result of that, plus trying to get more control to force ads.

Honestly? I'd be happy to not see their trash in any search engine I use.

Block Reddit!

Couldn't a search engine just aggregate the result from Google, filter the Reddit responses, and then add those results to their own organic results?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filter/

Install this and exclude it from all search results.

Ok so they are earning on our data

They're also blocking posts by users who aren't banned or even got a warning. It appears to the user as though it's been posted, but it hasn't.

I'm kind of curious to understand how they're blocking other search engines. I was under the impression that search engines just viewed the same pages we do to search through, and the only way to 'hide' things from them was to not have them publicly available. Is this something that other search engines could choose to circumvent if they decided to?

I'm seldom on reddit after the exodus, but when I am, I noscript the duck out of it.

It's still possible to search with "site:reddit.com ..."

Has it been implemented yet or are they blocking non-flagged searches? Which seems odd.

Hot take here.

I do believe in free information.

Instead of investing money in stop crawlers why do not make the data they are trying to crawl available to everyone for free so we can have a better world all together?

How many times is this going to be posted? I've seen this several times now over the past few days.

Net neutrality?

I don't have any more info on it, but I can prove it