cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1271267
What do you guys think about this? (Wasn't sure which community to post this in)
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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In their defense, writing a good search engine is very hard, even if you own all the data yourself.
There's a good reason why the litte search bar on reddit, on every forum ever created and on every corporate website is basically useless.
It's also why, among other minor technological challenges (like caching and indexing the entire fediverse), there is no search engine for Lemmy. Nor will there likely ever be one. Which is actually a pitty, because finding valuable information in a comment stashed on some minor instance will be nearly impossible - even for google.