• coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
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    4 months ago

    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.

    Can anyone confirm this? I typically use DDG, and I tried verifying this, but i’m not sure what to search on reddit that would exclusively bring up results from the past week. Seems like most of the time I’m reading posts from a year ago or more anyway, so it’s hard to see the effect immediately.

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        4 months ago

        aha. yeah that does it. i guess i never used that previously, so i have no comparison point for how well it worked before this deal. But sure enough, i get no results when searching very generic terms and filter to just the last week.

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          I’m just getting the Jimmy Carter and Trans wiki pages regardless of what I search for, regardless of which browser I use lol. I mean, not irrelevant to me but not super helpful.

          Firefox

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      4 months ago

      hello, we’re quoted in the piece, set your parameters to look only since the change/recently i.e.

      Bing - Restricted to a week here and there is nothing
      Mojeek - We are not crawling due to the block, avoiding adding results without content

      As most are just using Bing’s results (DDG, Qwant, Ecosia) you should see similar.