Jeff Perry on Reddit deal with Google for content access exclusivity in indexing their content: The Enshittification of Search Continues
This could set a precedent for other sites like Hacker News and Pinterest to start searching for the highest bidder to make their content exclusive on another search engine. Eventually other sites might do the same in hopes to thwart the serial scraping of their content for AI models to learn from and make a few bucks in the process. It is just another byproduct of the Enshittification of the web.
Troubling, indeed. Emphasis is mine.