Emanuel Maiberg, reporting for 404 Media:
If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week. DuckDuckGo is currently turning up seven links when searching Reddit, but provides no data on where the links go or why, instead only saying that “We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.” Older results will still show up, but these search engines are no longer able to “crawl” Reddit, meaning that Google is the only search engine that will turn up results from Reddit going forward.
The only reason that Reddit is such a great source of information is because, generally, all of the content published to it is written by people that have first-hand experience with the topic they’re discussing. When you see a Reddit link in search results, it probably has the right answer for you.
It’s a shame that Reddit is preventing other search engines from crawling their site, but I’m hopefully that something else will fill that vacuum.
➝ Source: 404media.co
