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Badeendje , to technology in Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google
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Reddit is asking for Europe to seem it a very large platform not that it’s gatekeeping like this

leopold , to technology in Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

this is just going to cause indexers to ignore robots.txt

LodeMike ,

They’re likely blocking user agents too, which I think also doesn’t have legal enforcement (as in DuckDuckGo can just use “Google” unless they said otherwise.

Natanael ,

LinkedIn tried blocking scraping that way but as long as the scraping isn’t burdensome it’s basically legal but you can still be bound by TOS and civil claims

natlawreview.com/…/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-propose…

capital ,

Rate limiting could “fix” that unfortunately.

gedaliyah OP ,
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"We always obey the robots.txt"

  • A bunch of corporations that have no accountability and plenty of incentive to just ignore it and have all been caught training AI on off-limits data.
Azzu , to technology in Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

I wish Lemmy were searchable better. The search function actually works decently well, but it’s not on the same level of actual search engines, it doesn’t seem to look for related/similar terms and also relevancy doesn’t seem right.

gedaliyah OP ,
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I do occasionally find Lemmy in web search results. The platform is not that big (or old), but as long as it sticks around then eventually searchability will improve.

urquell , to technology in Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

FUCK u/spez

MehBlah , to technology in Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

Bing it is then. I hate Microsoft with the intensity of thousand suns but bing is now my jam as long as this lasts.

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