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Reddit wants Microsoft to pay up if its search engine wants to crawl the platform

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67% Informative

Reddit has blocked search engine's like Microsoft Bing and DuckDuckGo from crawling its website.

The move is due to search engine companies using Reddit 's data to train their AI models.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Microsoft and AI companies Anthropic and Perplexity are among those blocking search engines from using Reddit data.

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50

Informative language

39

Neutral language

43

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

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short-lived

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