Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 month agoNo, I wouldn’t feel differently. In fact letting search engines scrape and point to your content is what leads people to your site. It’s free advertising. If you’re going to let one search engine in, you should let them all in.
capital@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not just search engines. Lots of people on Mastodon were using robots.txt to block ChatGPT (and any other LLM company they knew of) from scraping their sites/blogs.
I disagree, to a point. I want to be able to control my services to the greatest extent possible, including picking who scrapes me.
On the other hand, orgs as large as Google doing this poses a real threat to how the internet works right now which I hate.