…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.
Comment on Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit
TehPers@beehaw.org 3 months agoPeople 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.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 months ago
They don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models