Comment on Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 months agoCome on. Be realistic. Chrome has 70% browser market share and people are already used to tacking “Reddit” onto the end of their search queries to find useful information. If anything this will have no effect besides steering people towards Google.
TehPers@beehaw.org 2 months ago
People on Chrome adding Reddit to their Google searches already use Google. People not using Google who don’t search “Reddit” are going to see fewer Reddit results.
No, this won’t kill Reddit, but it certainly isn’t helping them get more traffic.
Cube6392@beehaw.org 2 months ago
They don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 months ago
…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.