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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week. DuckDuckGo is currently turning up seven links when searching Reddit, but provides no data on where the links go or why, instead only saying that “We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.” Older results will still show up, but these search engines are no longer able to “crawl” Reddit, meaning that Google is the only search engine that will turn up results from Reddit going forward.

Can anyone confirm this? I typically use DDG, and I tried verifying this, but i'm not sure what to search on reddit that would exclusively bring up results from the past week. Seems like most of the time I'm reading posts from a year ago or more anyway, so it's hard to see the effect immediately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hello, we're quoted in the piece, set your parameters to look only since the change/recently i.e.

Bing - Restricted to a week here and there is nothing
Mojeek - We are not crawling due to the block, avoiding adding results without content

As most are just using Bing's results (DDG, Qwant, Ecosia) you should see similar.

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