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?

  • @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

    That seems rather counterproductive imo. The only way to get useful results on any search engine is to input “reddit” at the end of your search ime. So it seems like it’s limiting the discovery and knowledge base of things here by not allowing for the same thing for Lemmy. Idk how to word that correctly.

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      81 month ago

      More so the only way to get results that aren’t ad-filled webpages that are paid to be top Google results is to search for reddit posts. Unfortunately a lot of the newer reddit stuff seems to be regurgitated bot accounts reposting stuff, so most useful stuff on Reddit is from before the enshittification.

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      11 month ago

      Seems like the correct way for them to index the site would be to create their own instance that federates with the rest and then index the content on the server. There is no need to scan each individual instance when there is a publishing protocol that handles the content stream.