Since reddits search function is a hot pile of garbage, I mostly used google to find threads when I needed community based information.
Video card acting up? No problem.
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Want to check out some discussion about an older TV series episode?
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Problem is I don’t know how to look tings up here via google
Should I give up the convenience of searching things from my address bar and use the built in search,or is there some secret sauce for googling stuff?
Someone made a multi-instamce 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.
Thank you to the developer for not pulling a lmgtfy and using a search engine wrapper injected with its own ads.
Type:
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.
The wildcard works too, so
site:lemmy.*will show you results from more instances thansite:lemmy.worldbut 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!
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.
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”- The “Join Lemmy” the commenter said, is on every lemmy server’s page, so it can help capture results from servers not following lemmy.*
Pear site:lemmy.* OR site:kbin.*
- would miss things from many servers not following this naming convention
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
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 6700 xt known driver issues site: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?
