Yes it does!

I heard that reddit has a dedicated cdn each for Microsoft and Google scraping. That's why they work so well to search reddit posts. It will probably take some effort to feed data so we'll from the fediverse.

On that note, perhaps we should have some per-community as well as per-post scrape/noscrape toggle. Might be difficult to get buy-in from all parties.

I've just tried a quick test using some popular queries and it looks as though communities are indexed but individual posts aren't? I agree, it would be nice to replace Reddit in this regard.

Maybe the above is only a temporary measure to help maintain server load?

One way to check is to do a search. e.g. for lemmy.world, google site:https://lemmy.world/

Some google searches already give me Lemmy posts, so it seems to work. I think indexing Lemmy posts takes more time, as I couldn't find my 'blog article' about hosting Lemmy on a Raspberry Pi or the community where it was posted yet trough Google yet. But I was able to find older communities on Feddit.nl, So most of the posts probably can't be found yet, as they simply are too new.

At the same time, I see people making “news articles” using people’s Reddit posts. More people making money on our content.

I think Duck Duck Go has the ability to search.

I used "F1 lemmy" multiple times in google already and the top post(s) were links to the F1 lemmy.

It works.

Probably but you’re not seeing it lemmy is not large enough to have the same tracktion as Reddit