How do you google for lemmy results?

Mintyytea, 11 months ago

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”

• The “Join Lemmy” the commenter said, is on every lemmy server’s page, so it can help capture results from servers not following lemmy.*

Pear site:lemmy.* OR site:kbin.*

• would miss things from many servers not following this naming convention

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

YolkBrushWork402, 11 months ago

This is very helpful! Thanks!

Dick_Justice, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

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

joyjoy, 11 months ago

Thank you to the developer for not pulling a lmgtfy and using a search engine wrapper injected with its own ads.

YolkBrushWork402, 11 months ago

This is great! Thank you!

Targo, 11 months ago

This rules, thanks.

VanillaGorilla, 11 months ago

That's helpful, thanks!

codenul, 11 months ago

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!

variouslegumes, 11 months ago

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.

Targo, 11 months ago

The wildcard works too, so site:lemmy.* will show you results from more instances than site:lemmy.world but 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.

budgard, 11 months ago

I already knew about the site: operator(?), but didn't know it accepts wildcards. Great tip thanks!

Cevilia, 11 months ago

As others have said, add site:lemmy.world (in your case - others should use their own server name) to whatever you're googling for. For example: https://ddg.gg/rx%206700%20xt%20known%20driver%20issues%20site:lemmy.world

rishabh, 11 months ago

But would this bring results from the instances or just lemmy.world?

CylonBunny, 11 months ago

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?

Cevilia, 11 months ago

I'd imagine DDG in particular will add !lemmy at some point to make it easier to google stuff there 🤷

Tyjarak, 11 months ago

startpage.com is another search engine who copied the trick from Google.

0485919158191, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Type this into google: site:lemmy.world [search term here]

oshitwaddup, 11 months ago

Does that get results from other instances though?

0485919158191, 11 months ago

You could do site:lemmy.* to search all instances with lemmy in the name.