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Google search from every aggregator on the fediverse? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mintyytea@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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I've heard you can do a google search and append say kbin.social to get results just from kbin, but if I wanted to treat the fediverse's content like reddit's, is there a way to do the google search on just everything that's on the fediverse?

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I've been hearing people will want to make search tools to help us search the fediverse, and in the future even give us options on our servers to opt out of being indexed if we want.

Also this is a search site someone else recommended where you can choose which search engine to search the fediverse: https://fedi-search.com

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[–] Mintyytea@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

oooh, so nice, thank you! I will use that. I didn't even know we can put that wild card *
I tested with " site:lemmy.* reddit "

The only thing is, I think not every lemmy instance is named that way. I think these are also lemmy servers - sh.itjust.works, vlemmy.net, lemm.ee

[–] foo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are more and more Lemmy instances (servers) every day sooooo this isn't a terrifically comprehensive search but, if you're looking for something in a federated Lemmy instance, one of the Lemmy.* instances probably knows about it... Maybe that's enough?

In other words, I would hazard a guess that almost everything in the lemmyverse can probably be found by searching the Lemmy.* instances.. assuming they expose their content to Google in the first place.

[–] foo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It looks promising, I searched for something using site:lemmy.* and one of the results was on sh.itjust.works and was found because of the federated URL:

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

I guess my only concern left then is for the different aggregators, since I thought there wouldn't be any difference really between kbin and lemmy (or the others)

[–] Awwab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Even if the domain isn't using Lemmy in the name I would think the page still has the word Lemmy in the metadata so it should still show up if you just treated it like how you append reddit to the end of a search.