One of the side effects of the reddit meltdown is that many search results were unavailable because of communities going private. It would be great if we could fill in the void with lemmy content instead.
I heard that reddit has a dedicated cdn each for Microsoft and Google scraping. That’s why they work so well to search reddit posts. It will probably take some effort to feed data so we’ll from the fediverse.
On that note, perhaps we should have some per-community as well as per-post scrape/noscrape toggle. Might be difficult to get buy-in from all parties.
One way to check is to do a search. e.g. for lemmy.world, google site:https://lemmy.world/
Some google searches already give me Lemmy posts, so it seems to work. I think indexing Lemmy posts takes more time, as I couldn’t find my ‘blog article’ about hosting Lemmy on a Raspberry Pi or the community where it was posted yet trough Google yet. But I was able to find older communities on Feddit.nl, So most of the posts probably can’t be found yet, as they simply are too new.
I used “F1 lemmy” multiple times in google already and the top post(s) were links to the F1 lemmy.
It works.
Which instance are you reading for F1?
Oh I want to know this too! Can’t wait to get a bustling f1 community around here. I’m in [email protected] and @lemmy.ml
I think Duck Duck Go has the ability to search.
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Yes it does!
