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That's the SEO arms race. Ad peddlers have been creating sites to bump up their Page Rank, and Google has been adding secret sauce to detect and deprioritize them.
The difference is that Google over prioritized Reddit pages, trusting Reddit's updoots. Google now needs to find other signals to determine if a Reddit post is as valuable as the updoots suggest.