I had been having trouble getting meaningful results from the fediverse on Google, and after seeing this post, it seems I’m not the only one. So, I created a site that helps search the fediverse in your search engine of choice (it currently supports Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Dogpile).
Due to query limitations with most search engines, it currently only searches the top 15 lemmy/kbin instances, but I’ve tested it and it seems to provide access to a good chunk of fediverse content. The exception is Google, which should be far more reliable overall as well as providing the ability to search Mastodon and PeerTube.
If you have contributions or ideas for improvement, feel free to check out the project here or shoot me a message. Hope this helps people! :)
Edit: Update in progress including improved search queries and support for Mastodon/PeerTube (Google only, unfortunately)
Edit 2: Update is live, along with a dedicated domain name. If the website doesn’t look any different for you, try Ctrl+F5 or clearing site data - it seems some browsers are caching the old page.
have you considered redirecting to whoogle or searx ? you can use farside.link which automatically redirects to a working instance. it would be helpful for people who want to avoid using Google
I will absolutely check this out, thanks for the suggestion!
Edit: I can’t get searx working at all for me, but I went ahead and implemented whoogle support