[guynamedloren]

I may be naive, but I'm not sure where the hate is coming from in this thread. It's no secret that Google search result quality has rapidly and consistently diminished over the past few years, a common topic of discussion here on HN. Many folks, myself included, have developed a habit of appending "reddit" in Google searches by default. And reddit's native search, on the other hand, is just abysmal. If this partnership results in finding quality and timely content in reddit faster, then I'm all for it. Net positive IMO.

[dist-epoch]

You're naive if you think reddit is safe from SEO spam.

Right now it's only because very very few people append "reddit". The moment that changes, it will be spammed into oblivion with subtle LLM written SEO spam.

Companies are sending people free products in exchange for an Amazon review, you think a free Reddit post will stop them?

[kccqzy]

People on Reddit upvote and downvote comments all the time. You cannot upvote or downvote a Google search result. Unlike SEO spam surfaced by Google that only needs to satisfy Google's ranking algorithm, SEO spam on Reddit needs to do that and garner enough upvotes by a diversity of users. Even though some of the users might be sock puppets or bots, the value is still there as long as there are more humans than bots.

[szundi]

Suddenly Reddit user count is x5 and we have bots upvoting

[kccqzy]

Suddenly Reddit becomes a huge user of reCAPTCHA Enterprise and astoundingly, Google earns a bunch of money for improving its search results.