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Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are they though?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know of any law that says that they can't.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I also don’t know if a law that says search engines have to honor a robots.txt file. I guess we will see what happens if Bing or some other service decides to ignore it.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

You can just require a log in to view content, or just flat out auto ban indexing robots.