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- Microsoft has confirmed that its Bing search engine was blocked by Reddit.
- This comes after an investigation found alternative search engines couldn’t display results from the platform.
- Reddit signed a far-reaching deal with Google earlier this year, but the company claimed this move was unrelated to the Google deal.
A recent investigation discovered that alternative search engines are no longer able to display Reddit results. This comes a while after Google and the social news platform signed a wide-ranging deal. Now, Microsoft has confirmed that Bing is indeed blocked by Reddit.
“We respect the robots.txt standard. Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits all crawling of their site,” a Microsoft representative told Search Engine Land.