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Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't find any information about their search engine crawler. Isn't it standard for search engines to label their crawlers or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s conventional to do this, but a user agent string is entirely up to the client, and robots.txt is just a suggestion.

So for the best results, you probably want to mock Google’s crawler because it’s suicidal to block that if you want search traffic.