Reddit is now blocking all search engines except Google from indexing its site as it effectively implements a paywall for AI training.
Back in February, it was revealed that Google was paying Reddit more than $60M a year to get access to user posts to help train its AI models …
Reddit blocking all search engines except Google
Reddit updated its robots.txt file to block all search engines. The file tells all web crawlers that they are not allowed to index the site, together with an explanatory message.
Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.
404 Media was the first to report on this, noting that other search engines have stopped returning any results from posts made within the past week.
“If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week…“
Source 9to5mac.com