After all the death of internet will be death of discovery on the web. Now we will have silos and walled garden with some agreements between them.<p>I would imagine the publishing industry to follow suit shortly and the academic knowledge discovery which was one of the core early reasons for the web to dissappear. And now we will lose much more than reddit reviews about products...etc.<p>I think this is another case where market forces does work but against the interests of the society. Usually when people say market forces work, they are right but don't specify in which direction and who benefits from that.
Search engine exclusivity is an insane idea and I think it will kill search engines if MS or whoever starts making deals with other big sites to block Google crawling. Imagine ads saying "Bing the Wall Street Journal today!" because it's exclusively on Bing, or only being able to access tech blogs in DuckDuckGo.
At this rate, robots.txt will be ignored by bots if it's not already.<p>Just like ads company completely ignoring Do Not Track because it's always set to deny / opt-out by the browser. It's already been <i>fixed</i>, but the damages is already done.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer_10_default_setting_controversy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer...</a>
As a DDG user, I'm hoping Pinterest also goes exclusive to Google and stops polluting my search results :)<p>And as a reddit user, I can assure you nothing of value has been lost.
It looks like Microsoft paid up, I'm getting Reddit results when searching for `site:reddit.com`: <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com</a>
Related rest of this discussion & outrage:<p><i>Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057033">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057033</a>