An absolute ton of search results can't be viewed right now because subreddits are locked down.
That might be better for Google. Now, when I google for reviews or brand recommendations, I won't get reddit anymore. Could reddit be biased? Absolutely. Is the entire first page of google full of bias, ads, and outright lies? Absolutely. But those ads pay Google; Reddit doesn't.
A lot of the Google search results for reddit lead to a error page or subreddit is now private, not the content Google originally indexed.
Wow, Reddit is going to lose a lot of pagerank.
Because when you visit a search result you get a page saying the page is private instead of content.
But are they serving a 410 (or other eeror code?) ? Looks like no to me. The algo may not respond as fast
Google knows if you follow a search result, then quickly go back to the search page.
Which has always been the case for anything tagged NSFW, or anything at all in a mobile browser. Every piece of SEO advice says this will get downranked from Google, but Reddit demonstrates this isn't true.
As a tip, if you just need to read the content from the search result then they seem to be commonly available in the wayback machine: