The last I read concerning Reddit is they are blocking most search engines from crawling them, except their paying buddies like Google, which is somewhat questionable to put it mildly.
I mean, thank god for that. Google is essentially useless unless you stick “reddit” at the end.
De-indicise Reddit and Google becomes essentially useless.
It’s still bad though. The fact that there is a special case just for Google, and search engines have to pay to indicise Reddit is egregious.
I miss the plain text web… :/
For me it’s quite the opposite. I try to avoid google, because of many annoyances. One is the outdated reddit results it displays with priority. If I use it, I usually have to switch it to verbatim and add -reddit to get decent results.
The last I read concerning Reddit is they are blocking most search engines from crawling them, except their paying buddies like Google, which is somewhat questionable to put it mildly.
Found the article I read: Slashdot - Google’s Exclusive Reddit Access
I mean, thank god for that. Google is essentially useless unless you stick “reddit” at the end. De-indicise Reddit and Google becomes essentially useless.
It’s still bad though. The fact that there is a special case just for Google, and search engines have to pay to indicise Reddit is egregious. I miss the plain text web… :/
For me it’s quite the opposite. I try to avoid google, because of many annoyances. One is the outdated reddit results it displays with priority. If I use it, I usually have to switch it to verbatim and add -reddit to get decent results.