Microsoft Bing blocked on Reddit, here’s what the company has to say
By
Isha Sharma
Microsoft has confirmed that the Bing Search Engine is getting blocked by Reddit due to the recent robot.txt file update on July 1. The update enforces policy against web scraping on the platform.
As a part of the updated policy, Reddit has blocked third-party search engines and AI chatbots from accessing its content without payment.
What Microsoft has said
“We respect the robots.txt standard.