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?
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?