Following a deal with Google and “misuse” of scraping its site, Reddit is now blocking all search engines from using its content.
Reddit can be a valuable source for information from real people, which is why Google is spending millions on a deal with the platform. But, now, Reddit has started to block many of its results from showing in other search engines properly.
In February of this year Google announced a new deal with Reddit which would see Reddit data used for training Google’s AI models as well as more prominently showing Reddit results within Google Search. Bloomberg reported that the deal was for around $60 million. In the time since, Reddit has also been showing in Google Search drastically more, often outranking websites that Reddit posts are linking to.
Now, Reddit results in other search engines are effectively being blocked.
This behavior was first reported by 404 Media, which notes that Reddit has updated its robots.
