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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?

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

This is awesome! Bookmarked

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

SearXNG also shows lemmy results in the social tab.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Believe it or not Lemmy.world is not the only instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah I'm new to Lemmy and still getting used to the whole instance thing. Apparently you can use "related:" to include results that are similar. In the below example, I did a Google search for "ukraine related:lemmy -site:reddit.com".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm guessing that search would turn up results for any instance LW is federated with? If not that would be disappointing!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don’t need the + to include things on Google.

Yeah I don't know why I added that. Kinda dumb on my part.

And just for funsies—you can use related: as an operator to find sites that are similar to something.

I think this is what OP was really looking for. I did a Google search for "ukraine related:lemmy -site:reddit.com" and got this, which seems to be the kind of results OP is looking for:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fantastic!

Also, love the user name. 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks. It's an homage to my banned Reddit account.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why not just open your Lemmy app of choice and click search?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

At least it's not pulling up mostly Motorhead-related content like it used to...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why are yall paying for search

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Better than the search paying to use you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

This is definitely helpful. I hadn't noticed it. Kagi keeps on giving. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Just change "reddit" for the Lemmy instance of your choice and it is functionally the same.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

How do you "try" Kagi without subscribing or creating an account? Is that possible?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Whoa, that's expensive for me. That's half of my internet bill just for a search engine. Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That makes me wonder if the fediverse is disadvantaged by SEO. Each instance is likely "just" a domain to search engines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Don't use Google, use Startpage.com instead, and add "lemmy" to your search terms.

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