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[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?

[-] rimu@piefed.social 26 points 7 months ago

Pretty much all content gets federated to lemmy.world so if you use site:lemmy.world that'll do it.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

If you look for something related to piracy, sadly it won't show.

[-] sudneo@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago

Kagi.com has a lens for the fediverse. A lens is basically a scope within which performing the search.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Nah. The best option we have imo is a service that indexes everything on one site so traditional search engines can find it. That requires someone to build it, and AFAIK that's hasn't happened.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That or the search engines themselves implement their own fediverse instances just for the purposes of indexing results. At a certain point if the platform becomes relevant enough I think we could see that happen.

I think they'd probably prefer instances that they have control over to reduce the avenues for a third party to manipulate the results. Otherwise they have to trust whoever runs the search instances.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It already works pretty well if you just add Lemmy to the search.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 7 months ago

Lemmy's built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it's resounding no.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 7 months ago

Web search engines don't rely on sites' built-in search features.

[-] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

This is how we found anything on reddit for most of its useful life. Its search was always garbage so we relied on Google to come up with usable results.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

It's miles better than reddit's search has ever been.

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