Reddit Blocks All Search Engines Except Google

Jul. 25, 2024



I did try to find new Reddit posts on Bing and DuckDuckGo, but they kept throwing older posts from a month ago. Search engines are respecting the “robots.txt” standard and have stopped crawling new Reddit posts.

It raises several questions about Google’s monopolistic behavior. Google is already being investigated by the US Department of Justice over its antitrust practices. This development may make things worse for Google.

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