That's probably the whole point ..

I'd say I add +reddit to a third of my searches these days

Now I'll have to go to their shitty built-in search and they can algorithmically feed me garbage and make lots of money from people that pay them

Smart move actually. The "+reddit" is something more and more people do on google, and on kagi.com reddit results are ranken No. 1 usually. Seems Googles search result quality will drop even further now.

EDIT: Article explains there is a 60M deal from Google using reddits API so that they can continue delivering results from Reddit. Will only hurt smaller search engines, like Kagi :(

Kagi in particular shouldn't be affected. Apart from using its own index, it also aggregates results from other search engines, most likely including Google. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...