How to google for content from Fediverse?

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I'm struggling with my google skills and fediverse right now

How should I approach googling if I want to look for answers in the fediverse?

With reddit, I just used "whatever i want to search reddit" and it would show results from reddit

What about now? "whatever i want fediverse"? "whatever i want lemmy kbin mastodon"?

marsara9 97 points 3 years ago

I don't mean to keep self promoting but: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

It's still a work in progress, but it's going to be a search engine specifically built for Lemmy, and maybe eventually the entire fediverse.

Idea is that you'll be able to search just like you normally would in Google but

the links it shows you would take you to your preferred instance
it will search as many lemmy instances as it can find, so it won't find anything outside of the fediverse.

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Emperor 12 points 3 years ago

I see you are looking for a name - if you search kbin too you are covering the threadiverse, so... WellVersed. Defined as:

having a lot of knowledge about something

Which you would be.

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rcmaehl 11 points 3 years ago

Is there a website up to use this search yet? I'd love to add it to my MSEdgeRedirect project as a selectable search engine for the upcoming 0.8 version!

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marsara9 18 points 3 years ago

Sadly not yet. I'm in desperate need of a fronted dev, as the HTML/Javascript needs some serious work. But if I can't find someone soon I'll see what I can get put together and get it up and running soon enough.

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Oshka 8 points 3 years ago

Dev's like you make this place work for some of us more technologically incapable people (me) so just want to say, thanks for the hard work!

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sab 10 points 3 years ago

I guess it would by definition have to look beyond Lemmy, as even content in Lemmy could originate from elsewhere?

One name suggestion: Findi.
Fediverse -> Findiverse -> Findi.

It's short, somewhat descriptive (Fedi is already used for the Fediverse), easy to remember, and doesn't seem to be used by any other major project. :)

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riktor 9 points 3 years ago

Thank you for your work, this will be huge!

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Vagabond 9 points 3 years ago

Thank god you asked this. It's been like pulling teeth trying to get google to show anything on any fediverse instance

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genoxidedev1 8 points 3 years ago

fedi-search.com. Perchance.

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BLAMM 3 points 3 years ago

-1 You can't just say perchance.

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Emperor 5 points 3 years ago

Forsooth!

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AlataOrange 2 points 3 years ago

Verily !!

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olorin99 3 points 3 years ago

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gsfraley 7 points 3 years ago

I think if you want specifically fediverse answers those are the way to go, but I've had a lot of luck with just adding "forum" on the end of stuff. Seems to give an even split between bulletin forums, Reddit/Twitter, and blogs for any given subject matter.

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PlutoniumAcid 6 points 3 years ago

I would probably add either "lemmy" or 'kbin" or both. Not ideal but hey...

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yoichi 6 points 3 years ago

All my Google searches for niche questions ended with "reddit" so I'm sure it'll be fine

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Cloudless 5 points 3 years ago

You can search by site using the "site" operator, for example:

"whatever you want site:lemmy.world"

All the results will be from/via the lemmy.world instance.

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abhibeckert 4 points 3 years ago

Google has always been pretty terrible at ranking websites that haven't been around for a while. They are absolutely already indexing every post, they just aren't ranking high enough.

Google will fix it, hopefully sooner rather than later.

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