Anyone else mildly annoyed that Lemmy does not show up in Google search results (not indexed), and that the rock and roll & motorcycle guy are higher up in the search rankings?
Wondering if it’s just me. What will it take for Lemmy to be higher in the search results / public consciousness?
It looks like a forum post where somebody showed their inaccurate ChatGPT results got boosted to the top of Google's ranking somehow. I think this is more of an issue with YCombinator's SEO abuse than anything. There's a reply from just 1 day ago on that forum post that says:
I just searched "country in africa that starts with k" and it used your comment as a snippet answer
EDIT: I also sent feedback on that result. I suggest others do the same if you see it. Only way these things get fixed is if they're reported to the people who can fix them.
I use other search engines such as duckduckgo which are better for privacy and less aimed at steering you to the websites that are using the search engine’s ad services. They do have a deal with Bing, so I might be wrong.
I don’t think people are gonna adopt Lemmy because they stumbled on it from Google searches.
Not particularly. I kind of like Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general, growing organically as people discover it, rather than it being the shiny new thing
Well, I hear ya - but a vast majority of what helped Reddit (or any community) pick up, is DIY and self generated content.
If that content can’t be found easily - ex; via search engine, or the content is entirely missing, then it doesn’t really help either cause. That’s just my 2 cents, because let’s face it, the search on Lemmy is fragmented and I think the help of big data could be promising.
Lemmy does show up though, you’re just expecting a niche site to show up where reddit is. Also Lemmy is not some “rock and roll and motorcycle guy” he’s fucking Lemmy and he’s a legend.
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