or is it that it doesnt have enough content plus its not popular enough? as i tried to type smth about tech and lemmy at the end and didnt get anything useful.
Protip - don’t use google.
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.worldshould work in most cases.Kagi has a fediverse search
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.
Kagi has a fediverse filter
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.worldAnd 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)
“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.
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.
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.worldThis is a comment affirming that the other comments have answered this question
Not really, just try asking around.
