How do you google for lemmy results?
Since reddits search function is a hot pile of garbage, I mostly used google to find threads when I needed community based information.
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Problem is I don't know how to look tings up here via google
Should I give up the convenience of searching things from my address bar and use the built in search,or is there some secret sauce for googling stuff?
Someone made a multi-instance search that is pretty great imho. its at https://fedi-search.com . You can choose which search engine you like even. I just added the favicon to my bookmark bar and use that when I specifically want Lemmy results.
edit: Credit to Benjamin Pryor, according to the site
Thank you to the developer for not pulling a lmgtfy and using a search engine wrapper injected with its own ads.
This rules, thanks.
This is great! Thank you!
That's helpful, thanks!
The wildcard works too, so
site:lemmy.*will show you results from more instances thansite:lemmy.worldbut will still omit stuff from instances like beehaw.org for example.I suspect that there's going to be a more elegant solution to this problem in the coming months.
I already knew about the site: operator(?), but didn't know it accepts wildcards. Great tip thanks!
Type this into google:
site:lemmy.world [search term here]Does that get results from other instances though?
You could do
site:lemmy.*to search all instances with lemmy in the name.A lot of people helped me with new tricks when I asked a similar question in a different post:
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/47139/Google-search-from-every-aggregator-on-the-fediverse
They said you can put quotes to it like
Pear “Join Lemmy” OR “Powered by kbin”
Pear site:lemmy.* OR site:kbin.*
I think as the top comment here said, there are tools people make to help search the fediverse. There will be a good way to search it if it did become very popular
This is very helpful! Thanks!
Yeah, there probably won't be a great search experience that includes results from every lemmy instance. It'd be a neat problem to work on.
I have submitted "!lemmy" to DDG as one of their Bang indicators. See if it gets approved. Saw this topic over on Lemmy.world where someone mentioned this, but it seems like i cant login into lemmy.world or crosspost, or even see all teh comments on this page. Still learning!
Wish there were a way to search across all Lemmy instances, even ones without the word Lemmy in their name. Maybe that’s something Google themselves will implement eventually?
startpage.com is another search engine who copied the trick from Google.
But would this bring results from the instances or just lemmy.world?