Someone could legitimately challenge Google on search right now
Not really, unfortunately, because of the sheer mass of the internet the infrastructure to just support the index of it requires massive funding. Even other giants like MS with Bing struggled with this. Short of a radical new way to run a search engine without a massive index, I just don’t see it happening.
Chances are you have an ISP that is doing dynamic IP. Clear cookies and cache on everything you ever touched Reddit with, note what your current IP is (Google “what’s my IP address”), unplug your ISP modem for about 15-20 minutes and plug it back in. You should get a new IP, check with the Google trick again.
Might get tricky if Reddit does something like a hardware ID on your computer or something, but I doubt it.