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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
Thank you to the developer for not pulling a lmgtfy and using a search engine wrapper injected with its own ads.
This rules, thanks.
This is great! Thank you!
That's helpful, thanks!
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.
I already knew about the site: operator(?), but didn't know it accepts wildcards. Great tip thanks!
Type this into google:
site:lemmy.world [search term here]
Does that get results from other instances though?
You could do site:lemmy.* to search all instances with lemmy in the name.
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”
Pear site:lemmy.* OR site:kbin.*
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
This is very helpful! Thanks!
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.
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!
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
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?
I'd imagine DDG in particular will add !lemmy at some point to make it easier to google stuff there 🤷
But would this bring results from the instances or just lemmy.world?