Baidu blocks Google, Bing from scraping content amid demand for data used on AI projects

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Wikipedia-style service Baidu Baike recently barred the search engine crawlers of Google and Bing from indexing its online content.

Google has a multimillion dollar deal with Reddit that gives it the right to scrape the social media platform for data to train its AI services.

Baidu has boosted efforts to safeguard its online assets, as demand for vast troves of data have risen for use in generative AI projects.

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Author / Journalist: Ben Jiang

Category: Business

Markets: Hong Kong

Topics: Generative Update Google Online Data Search Content Chinese Bing Baidu Service

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Published On: 2024-08-24 @ 07:00:19 (6 hours ago)

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