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?

  • Mintyytea@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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