So, in order to be able to utilize the engine for their own use without risking SCP-2-a taking over the world, the Foundation stopped using SCP-2-a and attempted to create a copy for their own use.

I'm having a hard time believing that the Foundation would bother doing this, especially given that there doesn't seem to be much utility in it. The Foundation probably already has the resources to access a bunch of webpages anyway, and the whole "before it even exists" bit seems silly—why would the Foundation need to go future-searching for webpages? How would they even know what search terms to enter to look for something that doesn't exist yet? If they tried to predict these things, wouldn't it be a waste of time in the end?

It is used by the foundation to search the entirety of the Internet for news regarding possible anomalous objects, reports of escaped SCPs and the locations they may be in,

It's actually pretty hard to write a program that can filter through qualitative information the way humans can (I say this as a psyc major who wrote an honor's thesis that used open-ended response data) and searching the internet for news would probably bring up a ton of "noise" that would be distracting, such as urban legends, fake stories, creepypasta, etc.

as well as used by employees to search for information in general otherwise unable to be accessed through normal search engines.

Pretty sure the Foundation would just have some sort of non-AI-connected search engine for these kinds of info searches.

It's not only an omage to the popular Reddit bot, but also explains exactly how the Foundation seems to know so much so quickly. What do you guys think?

homage

Not too sure about this. It feels like too much of the concept is built on expecting the reader to be familiar with the reddit bot, and in the end it's just an anomalous search engine that happens to be tied to an AI. That concept in itself is kind of bland given how many AIs we've already got on the site, including a series based on them: http://www.scp-wiki.net/aiad-homescreen