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by taion 850 days ago
Google are already indexing Reddit, so this might reflect the incremental value of direct API access plus keeping everyone happy. I would be surprised if Reddit’s threats to block Google’s crawler were all that credible.
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hobs 850 days ago
It's 100% this - Google is going out and shopping so they can get easy access and avoid any future lawsuits if things change in the AI training space.

I imagine this wont be the last announcement in this space.

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leros 850 days ago
It wouldn't surprise me either if something like half of Reddit's traffic was Google constantly crawling them.
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