@lmika :-(, sadness is somehow the only feeling I get about this news. The internet is falling apart, one small step at a time.
@lmika Ecosia buys their search results from Google (and Bing), so you should still get Reddit hits in the future.
@V_ Might be because I'm not a user of Reddit, or maybe chalk it up to blind optimism, but I'm generally of the impression that this decision would hurt Reddit more than it would hurt the open web. I can't imagine this being something that they would choose to do: despite Google's marketshare, I do believe they would prefer they'd have links to their site on every available search engine. They'll need as much traffic as they can to get that ad revenue they promise their investors when they went public. Feels to me Google force their hand here, as part of this cash for AI training data deal (just speculating here, I really have no idea).
But as for the open web, I think it'll be fine. I won't be changing search engines, so they'll be more opportunities for me to see those that post on their own site, rather than relying on these private spaces. And given time, might be that Reddit itself would be replaced with something else, just like it replaced Del.icio.us or whatever that social bookmarking site was. Websites come and go, but the web will remain.
But yeah, this is just how I see things at the moment. Opinions shifting with the wind, etc. etc.
@lmika I'm with you in the regard that it is not a good move for Reddit in the long term. My sadness comes more from the fact that a long hold convention in the internet is now questioned. And that now the idea of being only in one search engine is there. Sort of like a fragmentation of search. On the other side you never had a guarantee that you find everything in every search engine.