"Reddit" has quickly become one of my favorite search engine keywords. When I want to know what actual people have to say about restaurants near me or a hotel I might be looking at...
Microsoft today confirmed that Reddit is blocking Bing from accessing it, and a 404 Media investigation further showed that most non-Google sites don't work with Reddit anymore.
Still, according to 404 Media, Reddit isn't populating new links on other popular Google alternatives like DuckDuckGo, either...
Currently, there's no official reason for the lockout, but the news coincidentally follows a $60 million-a-year deal that allows Google to train its AI on posts from Reddit users.
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