I am sorry the question is confusing.
But some Google searches give much better results if you add “reddit” to the end of your query. This ends up generating a lot of traffic for Reddit.
Anyone found a way to search something but hint Google to look at Lemmy?
I use
This is awesome! Bookmarked
SearXNG also shows lemmy results in the social tab.
Add this at the end of your search query to omit results from Reddit:
-site:https://www.reddit.com/
To specifically include results from Lemmy, you can just add a plus sign and replace the site name:
+site:https://lemmy.world/
Believe it or not Lemmy.world is not the only instance.
I’m guessing that search would turn up results for any instance LW is fereated with? If not that would be disappointing!
Just as a FYI:
You don’t need the + to include things on Google. Anything you type that isn’t prefaced with a minus symbol already means “include this”. Also, using quotes means you want an exact match.
Additionally, you could shorten to this:
Search keywords here -site:Reddit.com site:lemmy.world “exact match keywords, if you want”And just for funsies—you can use related: as an operator to find sites that are similar to something.
Open your Lemmy app of choice and click search
At least it’s not pulling up mostly Motorhead-related content like it used to…
Maybe not helpful, but Kagi search includes an option to search forums, which includes Lemmy. They have or had a dedicated Lemmy search, but I don’t see it on my end right now.
It’s still there for me, called Fediverse Forums. It’s a lens you can disable or reorder so maybe you did and forgot about it? It’s also different to Forums lens which doesn’t seem to include Fediverse for some reason.
This is definitely helpful. I hadn’t noticed it. Kagi keeps on giving. Thank you!
Just change “reddit” for the Lemmy instance of your choice and it is functionally the same.
Try kagi search! It actually has a “lense” or search option that lets you directly search federated services like lemmy: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html
How do you “try” Kagi without subscribing or creating an account? Is that possible?
I think you get a hundred free searches, then it’s about 13 EUR per month for unlimited searches. I’d recommend Startpage, it’s free and European.
That makes me wonder if the fediverse is disadvantaged by SEO. Each instance is likely “just” a domain to search engines.
Don’t use Google, use Startpage.com instead, and add “lemmy” to your search terms.
I currently don’t do that (can not replace the treasure trove in reddit yet) but you can edit default search engine url and add something like
site:lemmy.world/ site:lemmy.ml/ site:lemm.ee/ site:sh.itjust.works/ site:lemmy.dbzer0.com/ site:lemmy.ca/ site:programming.dev/ site:lemmy.blahaj.zone/ site:discuss.tchncs.de/ site:spouli.xyz/
and make a seperate search engine shortcut for this. But as others have said, google is not great for this.
If you use searxng, then you can also include instance searches in default results . There is a seperate social media page(just like you have image or video tab), enable lemmy and mastodon stuff and use that.
Reddit has a decade long corpus of valuable knowledge from millions of individuals… Lemmy just doesn’t have that scale or earned trust yet.
Yeah I don’t browse Reddit anymore, but I still Google it for BIFL products and such. Lemmy just doesn’t have the content for those use cases.
You should definitely post in a relevant community to help build the proverbial field of dreams!
-site:reddit.com should exclude results from that site.
Then you will find only the shitty articles
I want to whitelist Lemmy, not blacklist Reddit
There was a Lemmy search engine but I don’t think it is up any more.
Stract has a Fediverse “optic” but it doesn’t appear to be working.
Probably if you tell Google to search site:lemmy.world that is likely to be good enough.
