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           Reddit Blocks Indexing by Search Engines Other Than Google

   Adam Engst

   At the increasingly impressive 404 Media, [1]Emanuel Maiberg writes:

     Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from
     Reddit, making one of the web's most valuable repositories of user
     generated content exclusive to the internet's already dominant
     search engine.

     ...

     The news shows how Google's near monopoly on search is now actively
     hindering other companies' ability to compete at a time when Google
     is facing increasing criticism over the quality of its search
     results. And while neither Reddit or Google responded to a request
     for comment, it appears that the exclusion of other search engines
     is the result of a multi-million dollar deal that gives Google the
     right to scrape Reddit for data to train its AI products.

   This deal will presumably keep Reddit content out of OpenAI's
   forthcoming [2]SearchGPT, which may be attractive to Google but feels
   like a slippery slope for the open Web.

   [3]Read original article

References

   1. https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/
   2. https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/
   3. https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/

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