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Just found out that DuckDuckGo can be used to search Fediverse sites easily. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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If you didn't know, on DuckDuckGo you can search for posts or magazines with site:kbin.social just like you would with Reddit. The same applies to any other Fediverse site like Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.. I was really frustrated because it seems like Google was intentionally suppressing them.

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[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

It's the other way around: kbin.social explicitly does not allow indexing by search engines. If DuckDuckGo ignores this, the fault is basically not with Google.

[–] slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why?

[–] Timwi@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because it puts a considerable strain on Kbin’s servers, because there is a lot of content to crawl.

I suspect (hope, even) that if Kbin runs on beefier hardware some time in the future, crawling can be enabled. However, since Kbin is completely free and devoid of ads, we would probably need to start a donation drive to make that happen.

[–] thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Indexing helps a LOT for discovery both of new content and old answers alike ... Would love to see kbin start showing up in search results instead of Reddit when trying to find answers to technical issues...

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