coyotino [he/him] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoMicrosoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Redditwww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology
arrow-up1110arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Redditwww.404media.cocoyotino [he/him] to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square35fedilinkcross-posted to: technology
minus-squareTehPerslinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoPeople on Chrome adding Reddit to their Google searches already use Google. People not using Google who don’t search “Reddit” are going to see fewer Reddit results. No, this won’t kill Reddit, but it certainly isn’t helping them get more traffic.
minus-squarelemmyvorelinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months ago…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.
minus-squareThe CuuuuubelinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoThey don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models
People on Chrome adding Reddit to their Google searches already use Google. People not using Google who don’t search “Reddit” are going to see fewer Reddit results.
No, this won’t kill Reddit, but it certainly isn’t helping them get more traffic.
…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.
They don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models