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A great use for reddit is the ability to search posts and opinions about any niche topic. Will that be possible with Lemmy as it grows? Will I be able to Google "instant rice Lemmy" and get a comprehensive tier list of each brand?

I imagine search engines will have trouble with all the different instances(?). EDIT: Especially with instances that don't have Lemmy in their name, I don't think search engines would return them for Lemmy searches?

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[–] Jozzo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can use a search query to include only results with Lemmy's footer, which is consistent across all Lemmy instances. I made a post about it here: https://lemmy.world/post/342365

EDIT: Fixed link

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Respectfully: Fuck that.

If you want to find the best instant rice recommendations on Lemmy, Lemmy should have a functional post search function, rather than me relying on a malevolent corporate entity like google to index all the content.

Search has gone to shit as the Internet has embraced social media sites, an upside of this is that wikipedia+Lemmy+key word search, mayas accurate as asking Google Bard or bing, and they can be built on entirety open tech.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cool rage but you dismissing search indexing is kinda hilarious. It's not going away and it's what makes the web. Would you rather have 3 big websites instead of indexed web?

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you rather have 3 big websites instead of indexed web?

That's what we already have, I'd you need to find stuff by doing site specific googles, both google & that site have failed.

The web is dead, it's been dead for a while, now is the time to build something new in it's wake that rather than depending on closed source algorithms, indexing 3 big websites, we could just search the 3 big websites directly.

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I disagree. I'm not sure why you say that. I Google stuff as a job and it's certainly not just the big 3 websites. I personally rely on selfhosted searxng.

[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ok, not a stupid question - but annoying to assume that only Google is relevant.

Also, annoying that you'll assume that searching 'instant rice' will pull results from Lemmy. Even searching Lemmy for 'instant rice' brings zero results.

  • Instant rice simply had all of the good parts milled out If you really are interested, I'd skip it entirely - 'instant' rice is basically rice that got everything milled out of it, then it's cooked, then dried - it costs a lot more and tastes like shit.

So I hope my answer will come up in your next search...

However, searching for 'sending epub files to my kindle' brings up quite a few... and down the list there, we see posts from 2022 in r/kindle, and entering reddit as an extra keyword pulls up more...

So really, we want to know if we search for something which should have results in Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world - and not only Lemmy, there are others - like BeeHaw) how long is it going to take before this gets picked up by SEARCH ENGINES (Let's not say Google, or Reddit - these are bad habits unless there's a specific need to specify).> instant rice

[–] hardypart@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but annoying to assume that only Google is relevant.

Google's market share is around 92%. Of course it's the most relevant thing. Other search engines only exist for 10% of the users.