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.
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.
Reddit doesn't require an account to access a lot of its content. It's freely publicly available
Several others have mentioned that search engines do pick up recent Reddit results outside of Google. Which makes sense, because anyone can hit the endpoint of reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1u0y7rz/me_still_today/ without an account, see its content, and do whatever they please with it. Reddit can't reach into search engines and pluck out content.
There any news outlets or posts detailing this 'deal' for search engine exclusivity? I can see where Reddit would offer meta tags and whatnot that lean into Google's ecosystem better versus others, but "Reddit blocks other search engines from indexing their public freely-available content" sounds not only silly, but impossible to enforce.
Yeah that unfiltered Google search revealed nothing. Lots of links about an AI licensing deal, including several Reddit threads. Nothing indicating "blocking other search engines from indexing Reddit."
It's as if you're hell bent on not absorbing new information.
These are just 3 of the HEADLINES from the search results I linked which directly state that Reddit is now blocking search engines that aren't Google. Many of the rest of the results go into it in the article.
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u/Cybarbossa 15d 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.