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He answers that directly. > This classification will require a login, must be opted into, will not appear in search results or public listings, and will genera
by shock-value 11y ago
He answers that directly.
> This classification will require a login, must be opted into, will not appear in search results or public listings, and will generate no revenue for Reddit.
- tptacek 11y agoThanks! I didn't notice that.
- waterlesscloud 11y ago"Not appear in search results" likely just means the internal search engine. Such as it is. I'm not sure that implies anything about whether or not they'll show up in Google and Bing.
- fweespeech 11y agoThey view the site as "Guest" so: > This classification will require a login, must be opted into That would prevent them from being visible.
- waterlesscloud 11y agoHmm. True. Though obviously crawlers can be allowed different access. Doesn't Google have a policy that sites must allow access from Google links in order to have content indexed? See for example the New York Times and their paywall, which is famously circumvented via Google. That seems to indicate it's not that clear cut. My suspicion is they haven't really thought about it yet.
- shock-value 11y agoThat's not how their policy works, as far as I know. It's based on individual pages, not the entire URL.
- pests 11y agoNot directly answering your question, but you don't allow search engines, you disallow. To be more clear, can disallow Google or other search engines from crawling your content, but not from including it in their index. Google (et al) can gather information and ranking about your site from back links and other pages it crawls, but it might not actually have your page content. If the engines follow current internet politeness.
- empressplay 11y agoSearch engines can't typically crawl content that's behind authentication.