but not the misuse of public content
Is that an admission that they don’t own the content others posted on their site?
I am confused, does this mean Reddit is not going to be searchable on search engines anymore?
Unfortunately yes. It was reported on last month.
That’s the catch, Google made a deal with Reddit and remains the only search engine allowed to access its data for indexing. It cuts off every other search engine
really? ddg will show me reddit links, did they have to make a webscraper or something
Not gonna lie this seems like ultimately a win for the Internet. The years of troubleshooting solutions Reddit Provided can be archived (hopefully) but the less people rely on the site itself, the better. At least in my opinion.
I disagree, kinda. Stackoverflow is the other option for questions which is a lot less user friendly, and Lemmy has never shown up in search results for me. If something comes along and makes it simple, great! however I just see a lot more of ad filled hellhole sites in the meantime.
I remember finding Google’s robots.txt when they first came out. It was a cute little text ASCII art of a robot with a heart that said, “We love robots!”
An ancient text from the before-fore.
this is actually quite recent. the old one was much funnier and clearly had actual soul put into it.
