Google should buy Reddit instead. Not that different from owning Youtube. And they'd ensure their search results remain full of good, text based content.

Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google.

Meanwhile Google's text and video ad network could probably monetize Reddit way better than Reddit can.

Youtube hasn't been great at dealing with controversial topics or sexual content. We'd basically see a Yahoo/Tumblr situation all over again.

I see. You want to see Reddit shut down somewhere over the next 3 years.

They already bought Deja News, and then virtually killed usenet so no, thank you, google can go DoBadThingsToThemselves...

> Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google.

That is actually really true.

Also reddit is a great (if not the actual best existing right now?) source for training AI models.

All true, but I find it unlikely that they would be allowed to buy it. Even if the US approved (by no means certain), the EU probably would not.

Google destroyed its own search engine, it would do the same to Reddit.

The fundamental problem is that reddit's primary strength, it's biggest point of value, is antithetical to the type of monetization that Google would implement.

This is an extraordinarily good idea and I'm surprised I haven't heard it discussed before.

Having more concentration of internet services under Google doesn't sound like a good idea at all. Or maybe rename it GAOLgle?

I wonder how long until reddit allows search engine origin to bypass the community locked. my guess is very soon

Reddit would finally have search that works!

Why would they?

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.

Because when you visit a search result you get a page saying the page is private instead of content.

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:

https://web.archive.org

It does mean you need to cut-n-paste the Reddit url there, but it's been working for the content I needed to look into yesterday.

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.

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.

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.

To add it to killedbygoogle.com