Comment on YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I have to think, on some BBS forum somewhere, before search engines took off, someone made a script out of curl, grep, and a list of popular domains to search this new thing called “the Internet”.
This giant aggregation string you’ve created isn’t something that should need to be done manually, this is something search engines should just do for us. Instead they’re focused on ads and listicles…
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Maybe duckduckgo will eventually add a search for lemmy like they did for reddit… Shrug
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I don’t think it should be necessary to tell a search engine where the most relevant results are located. That’s literally the only point of a search engine. I want to enter a search term, and if the best results are on reddit, I want to see those, or if it’s on Lemmy I want to see that, or if the best result is somewhere else I don’t know about, THAT’S what I want to see. The fact that we have to manually tell search engines where to search is completely backwards.
Not ranting at you, you’ve done good work. Just disappointed at the current state of “search” engines.
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Ahh now I get what you mean, ok ok :)