- Social media site is blocking Microsoft, other search engines
- CEO wants to ensure that Reddit data isn’t scraped or resold
Reddit Inc. has been blocking search engines, including Microsoft Corp.’s Bing, from accessing the site’s posts and comments unless they sign commercial agreements, following a Reddit policy change that took effect last month.
“We can no longer be completely open because we have to be very considerate of where our data ends up and what it’s used for,” Chief Executive Officer Steve Huffman said in an interview. “Any crawler that we don’t have a formal agreement with, we’re now blocking.”
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