Yeah this is filling a gap Google created. SEO blogspam is so prevalent that if you’re searching for a product, the first page is often filled with sponsored content. Adding reddit to a search will increase your odds of getting results that at least appear to be a discussion between real people.
Reddit benefits from this quite a lot as a centralized platform. Discourse isn’t centralized and is whitelabeled more often than not, so it’s more likely that searching “[product] forum” is going to get you Discourse results… which seems healthier for the web.
Brave is working on adding discussion-focused search to their search engine… which seems to align better with our approach and can benefit everyone:
Google specifically removed their own “discussion” search filter years ago. Maybe it’ll make a comeback.