• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    So do DDG and a lot of other search engines. In addition to the time and cost of running a spider and maintaining a database (for little to no technological benefit these days), a lot of server admins will block crawlers that aren’t googlebot or msnbot/bingbot.