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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah I thought the same so it’s good to see the numbers. I don’t think people realize that to support a search engine means letting them crawl your pages which means serving all your pages to them, which costs server resources. A lot of sites get more crawler load than load from actual users viewing pages. It’s a real cost.

Still, you’d think they could manage to support DuckDuckGo at least. Or a small set of search giants to give some appearance of supporting competition.