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[–] 31 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Fediverse content is generally not indexed by Google because it's doesn't have predictable landing pages or site indexes. It moves and changes.

If something is shared enough on enough places and has enough anchor/hard links backs to something, it will probably show up.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    It seems like it does get indexed, but it doesn't show up very high. I'm assuming nobody is bothering with SEO.

    Do the following search: iran site:lemmy.world

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    "Fediverse content" is absolutely indexed by Google, like everything else on the public web. Why would Google choose to ignore it just because it is from the fediverse?

    But it usually doesn't show up very prominently, and which instances' copies do show up can be completely unpredictable. Probably the search built into fediverse software is more useful if you want to specifically search here.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well, for the exact reason I said. Google ignores reference to anything without other corroboration. Hard or anchor links are necessary.

    Fediverse content requires fluidity, and the same content is available at dozens of places. If they scrape the same post at different endpoint URIs, it will be discarded as spam.

    This isn't even news, it's a known thing, and Google themselves described this in their SEO docs. No Fediverse instance is going to be spending money with Google to get a higher ranking, so it's just kind of not going to show up.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Kagi has a fediverse search

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago*

    as i tried to type smth about tech and lemmy at the end and didnt get anything useful.

    Putting lemmy on the end does suggest to the engine what you want, but you can command it to do what you want instead.

    Do the following search: ryzen site:lemmy.world

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Well Google is in bed with Reddit. That's why Reddit posts show top in Google's results

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    i have but it's not as effective

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    This is a comment affirming that the other comments have answered this question

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    There's also a SearxNG Lemmy engine although you'll probably have to self-host it unless a public instance has configured it. Failing that, site:lemmy.world should work in most cases.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I assume you could use the google “site” boolean to search within a specific instance.

    For example, starting your search with:

    site:lemmy.world
    

    And then add a space plus your search terms to give something like:

    site:lemmy.world how to search
    

    That would limit the search to indexed results appearing in the lemmy.world domain.

    I have no idea how often any given instance is indexed by google’s crawlers…

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Not really, just try asking around.

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