I did a couple of questions on Reddit about a specific topic, then 10 minutes later I did a search in DDG where I searched for a series of words I used in my post on Reddit. My posts on Reddit were in the top of DDG's results. Somehow they seem to have a direct pipeline into Reddit in near real time -- really interesting!
Just checked, Bing too.
Before the Spez-Moderator kerfluffle broke out an article said that reddit's c-suite had finally recognized that search engines were being used to drill deep into /r for review-type posts or direct answers to questions --many with 'reddit' as part of the original search phrase. (I do it all the time.) Reddit was re-focusing on seo to build that traffic even more. I can't find the article now.
IIRC (and I'm very fuzzy on this, so I may be wrong), they were working directly with the search engines.
Yeah, t remember that. It makes sense that the search engines would quickly poach content, but the speed it is happening is what's shocking. Ten minutes after posting on Reddit the post was top results. Bing and DDG must have some type of real time database inclusion for Reddit. Seems like that could be taken advantage of.
> Seems like that could be taken advantage of
I've been meaning to show you this
newest submissions : 3dprintingdeals
https://old.reddit.com/r/3dprintingdeals/new/
While searching for that article above I saw several articles that said reddit can really send tons of referrals. I suspect that a good number of these are '2 bounce' referrals; G > /r > site. I know I do a lot of that.
Reddit is considering blocking search crawlers from Google and Bing
Reddit finally takes its API war where it belongs: to AI companies | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/reddit-may-block-search-if-it-cant-reach-an-ai-deal-with-google-microsoft/