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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kagi has a fediverse filter

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    • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I find myself using this all the time. I search for something in interested in, start reading the post, then realize I wrote it.

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  • RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And Iran…Iran so far away! I just Iran…Iran all night and day… I couldn’t get away (from my country starting pointless warsin the middle east)

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    • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s an aggregation issue, the same content provided on multiple servers is considered spam and ranks low

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “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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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It will show the instance where the post originated from. That is achieved through the canonical html meta tag that is available for exactly this purpose.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve already seen plenty of Lemmy search results.

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Protip - don’t use google.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I actually want to have an answer to my question, not have the moral upper hand

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a partial answer. Google enshittified search to get people looking more, thus displaying more ads. They are deliberately fucking with you.

      First step, use non enshittified tools. I get better results from non google searches.

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• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kagi has a fediverse search

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the real answer.
    I can’t go back to ad driven search.

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• RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

  Search: iran site:lemmy.world

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• cranakis@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i have but it’s not as effective

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Hux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not really, just try asking around.

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