[GuB-42]

Microsoft can throw around $60M, and Bing is used by most of the "alternative" search engines.

It doesn't solve the problem, but if money is the only thing preventing search engines from accessing Reddit, then what goes for Google also goes for Microsoft.

[superb_dev]

Cool, so the top two players are now the only players and everyone else is now trapped feeding off of them

[account42]

> Microsoft can throw around $60M, and Bing is used by most of the "alternative" search engines.

That's a symptom of the issue, not a solution. Bing is used because having your own crawler is infeasible, partially because you will be literally blocked in many cases.