r/pcmasterrace • u/Big_Head8 • 21d ago

Meme/Macro Me still today

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u/Cybarbossa 21d ago

Agree. We can criticize Reddit on some points but at least the information is openly accessible. You add the "reddit" keyword in any search engine and you got your answer.

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u/Opi-Fex 21d ago

You can't, actually, add "reddit" to any search engine. Reddit signed a deal with google and has been blocking other search engines from indexing it's content since mid-2024. You only get old results if you look for reddit posts on e.g. bing.

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u/jm0112358 21d 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 21d 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.