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Comment by mastazi

3 days ago

All search engines include Reddit results by default and you can usually refine by adding some param like site:reddit.com which works the same in Google as in other search engines

e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=filter+coffee+site%3Areddit...

Edit: maybe you are thinking about the AI deal which is exclusive to Google. That's not the same thing as search engine indexing https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reddit-60-million-deal-a...

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ronjouch  3 days ago

> “Edit: maybe you are thinking about the AI deal which is exclusive to Google. That's not the same thing as search engine indexing.”

@mastazi that’s what I’m talking about, and I think your AI vs. indexing nuance is incorrect. I wasn’t sure, so I just did a quick N=1 verification: searching for the name of a random 1week-old popular Reddit post with a precise unique title,

- Insta-found it on Goog as top result

- Didn't find it on DDG, with or without site:reddit.com

Looks like sibling comment from @cpressland (thanks!) is correct: as of today and until other search engines sign licensing agreements with Reddit, “non-Google search engines cannot get new results from Reddit”. See https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt , which links to https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525... , section “Reddit may license public content for commercial or non-commercial use”

  • esperent  3 days ago

    I thought that DDG and Kagi get a large amount of their results from Google? Do these have reddit results stripped out?

    > a random 1week-old popular Reddit post with a precise unique title

    While a week is a long time, is it possible that the other search engines just hadn't got around to indexing it yet?