Google searched worked really well for reddit if trying to find an answer to a technical question or the like. How well will this translate for Lemmy? I assume it would be a lot more difficult as the post could reside on any number of smaller instances.

  • BrikoX@vlemmy.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Since all posts/comments are public, all you need is some kind of indexer to organize them and a list of all the instances. There are people working on it right now. But in the meantime you can just add (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy") to your search queries to search all Lemmy instances.

  • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can imagine there will be improvements for SEO in the future, but for right now, being in beta, it kinda makes sense that it would not want to be so very visible.

    In the meantime, there is also Search-Lemmy.

    • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the callout. For anyone using that site, I have a list of bugs I’m hoping to get fixed in the next couple days that should fix a lot of the major issues (broken links, etc…).