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How does Lemmy work with search engines? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by melonpunk to c/[email protected]

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One thing Reddit dominates on is search results. I'm looking things up and seeing so many links to reddit, which I guess is going to help keep that place relevant (unless those subreddits stay dark).

I wondered how Lemmy and this fed thingy stuff all works for that? With more posts can we expect to see people arriving through search results?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What do you use as a search engine instead of Google? I feel like I've tried everything, but always end up back at Google search.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using DuckDuckGo for about a year now, the results still aren't as good as google, but not having to look at ads and the better privacy outweigh that for me. It really has improved a lot over the last few years.

[–] illectrility 2 points 1 year ago

Startpage, SwissCows, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, SearX

[–] Ministar 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been using Ecosia and so far its been very good. I did not have a need to use Google once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ecosia uses the Bing algorithm by the way, but with tree planting and better privacy. I think DuckDuckGo does the same. So if you've tried either one of does, there's no need to also try Bing.

Yandex is good if you're sailing the high seas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

SearXNG

[–] melonpunk 2 points 1 year ago

Been using DuckDuckGo for years now. I only go to Google if I'm not finding what I need, which isn't that often. And to do that I just pop in !g before my search in DDG and it pushes me to google. Can do the same for other engines like !b for Bing.