Somehow after all these years reddit never got their search to work. You can paste a comment word for word in the search and reddit won't find it.

They're dependent on google.

Also if they somehow figure out search to work, it will be ruined because of users gaming the search system with SEO.

> However, the argument that Reddit can build a better search than Google is a flawed argument. And that flaw is the same flaw that makes Google results bad. And that flaw is money. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30369402

I think it does. They're busy self-sabotating at the moment. They have never properly figured out search though, that aspect of Reddit has been mediocre since the beginning. There is reason to be skeptical that they could figure it out now, given their other product/feature development; they appear incapable of doing it effectively.

Or an opportunity for google to buy reddit? Seems google knows how to monetize and knows how to search. They do already have one huge successful online community (youtube). Yeah, I don't have much faith in google management and buyouts either, but maybe..?

the realistic opp for Reddit is to charge Google access to the API which would more than cover all of the other API users. If Googs can afford to pay Apple and others to have their search be the default, they can afford to pay to crawl Reddit too