I personally think the search sucks because good search takes a lot of resources (in many different ways) and they prefer to allocate those resources elsewhere.

I personally think the search sucks because good search takes a lot of resources (in many different ways) and they prefer to allocate those resources elsewhere. I remember creating a search function in school, and while it worked pretty well, I'm not sure it would work well for an organization with as much information as Reddit. As for reddit-level money, does reddit even make all that much compared to their expenses?