shish_mish@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoGoogle Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Dealwww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1186cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansreddit@lemmy.world
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minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 months agoIs Google really permitted to prevent any other search engine from looking at Reddit?
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·5 months agoI guess Reddit is permitted to only let Google index it
minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoAre they though?
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoI don’t know of any law that says that they can’t.
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-25 months agoI also don’t know if a law that says search engines have to honor a robots.txt file. I guess we will see what happens if Bing or some other service decides to ignore it.
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoYou can just require a log in to view content, or just flat out auto ban indexing robots.
Is Google really permitted to prevent any other search engine from looking at Reddit?
I guess Reddit is permitted to only let Google index it
Are they though?
I don’t know of any law that says that they can’t.
I also don’t know if a law that says search engines have to honor a robots.txt file. I guess we will see what happens if Bing or some other service decides to ignore it.
You can just require a log in to view content, or just flat out auto ban indexing robots.