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No, Reddit frequently has answers but lemmy has too little content for now
Definitely, but I'm a firm believer in being the change you want to see. I'll be contributing to this site rather than reddit from now on
Lemmy being decentralized doesn't make it very search engine friendly. Because it's federated across multiple instances, none of them reach a critical mass big enough / trusted to be constantly at the top of results. Duplicated content across instances can be flagged as spammy content.
It would not be on top of Google regardless, because it isn't paying for the ad slot there.
I recently had a very specific issue with KDE and the first and actually helpful result was a thread from a Lemmy instance. Never had this happen before, but it's a good sign.
Same! But I won't only search lemmy unless I want zero info
Ok then post from all my communities then lol
same
I've been looking forward to this actually.
As far as I'm concerned, automatically avoiding Reddit just by avoiding Google (which I already do) is a welcome bonus.
I guess I'll use my phone even less now. Sometimes inconvenient but beneficial in the long run
only be indexed if you are using the google
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Not working for me
This is bizarre.
I'm using the DDG search engine in the DDG browser and I'm getting reddit results with your search. The only difference was I didn't choose Canada as my region. I tried Canada(en), I tried all safe search options, and I tried Canada (fr) and each time I got Reddit as my first search results.
I tried "All regions" but didnt get anything as well. I'll be trying the DDG browser, thank you for your input
Edit: tried it, didnt work. Reddit is no more for me I feel like
The changes must not be rolled out uniformly. I still get Reddit results that are less than a month old. If it weren't being reported as a deliberate decision, I would've assumed this was just A/B testing.
Versus google search engine
I find absolutely no value in that place now. It's morphed into nothing but a time sink and there are plenty other options for that.
I'm surprised the other search engines have got a antimonopoly ruling already
I thought I was tripping earlier but I just tested it and you're right. even using Boolean search I can only pull up user profiles, not posts.
Lemmy is good for general discussion. Current events, politics, rant about life, whatever.
Not gonna be useful for discussing thing like:
"Which is your favorite character of [Insert obscure TV show that 90% of people didn't watch]"
meanwhile, theres almost guaranteed to be a subreddit for that show.
Isn't there an option in reddit settings to turn off and on showing up in Google results?
I think that feature is refering to other people searching up your username
Edit: btw I dont use google (whether the browser or the search engine) which is why I was annoyed at this change. Only the google search engine can give you reddit results
Using Reddit will give you aids
The site doesnt feel like its filled with real people anymore, maybe there are more and more bots being used?