In the past, we would type something like site:reddit.com into a search engine to get to the resource we needed. In the meantime, I have already found a few useful tips on Lemmy instances by using the Lemmy search. But since all Lemmy instances are named differently, a simple site:lemmy won’t work well in a search engine.

Do you see a solution for this? Or do we leave this to the search providers to figure out?

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    You can append (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy") to your search query to search through all Lemmy instances.

    People are already working on unified search tool, it’s not really hard as all you need is a list of instances and and a way to index them.

    • blackbrook@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What search engine(s) are we talking about? I recognize OP’s syntax as something that works in Google, but maybe it works in Bing too? I’m not familiar with “intext”, what engine(s) does it work with?

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Google and any metasearch engine that uses Google results like Startpage, Leta, SearX, etc. Not sure about Bing.

          • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, my bad. It was on mind so I just typed it even though it’s unrelated to what I was thinking.