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.
rx 6700 xt known driver issues reddit
Want to check out some discussion about an older TV series episode?
always sunny s02e13 discussion reddit
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.