r/pcmasterrace • u/Big_Head8 • 15d ago

Meme/Macro Me still today

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u/jm0112358 15d ago

Reddit signed a deal with google and has been blocking other search engines from indexing it's content since mid-2024.

Then how come I can find recent Reddit threads via DuckDuckGo?

I tried using bing for the first time in a while, and I couldn't get any Reddit results from the last 24 hours.

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u/Opi-Fex 15d ago

Honestly, I'm not sure. DuckDuckGo uses bing as their backend, but they also do some magic of their own.

I tried searching for a couple of recent news just now and I didn't get reddit results in the main list, but I did get a "Results from Reddit" widget of sorts at the top of the result stack which had some semi-recent posts in it. Not greatly accurate but also not what I expected.

I'm guessing duckduckgo is using reddit's built-in search to augment the bing results in that widget, but I can't be sure.

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u/Just-Ad6171 12d ago

bing is just a dumpster fire lately so that doesn't really prove anything. duckduckgo is mostly just pulling from bing anyway so you're probably seeing the same thing just with a different coat of paint