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?

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    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.

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      Thank you to the developer for not pulling a lmgtfy and using a search engine wrapper injected with its own ads.

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    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.

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      I already knew about the site: operator(?), but didn’t know it accepts wildcards. Great tip thanks!

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    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.

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    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

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      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?