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Wondering if it's just me. What will it take for Lemmy to be higher in the search results / public consciousness?

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[-] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 year ago

Also Motorhead lemmy deserves higher Google ratings than we do. He is a beast.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely. And as a metalhead I know full well who he is 😁 ha! Just trying to catch the eye of the masses.

[-] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy does show up though, you're just expecting a niche site to show up where reddit is. Also Lemmy is not some "rock and roll and motorcycle guy" he's fucking Lemmy and he's a legend.

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

"rock and roll & motorcycle guy"

Urge to kill RISINNNNNNNNNNG

[-] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I knew that might strike a chord 🀘😁

[-] Thcgrasscity@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

I dont fuck with google after today.

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, I looked into this. This is the page it's getting that from:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145312

It looks like a forum post where somebody showed their inaccurate ChatGPT results got boosted to the top of Google's ranking somehow. I think this is more of an issue with YCombinator's SEO abuse than anything. There's a reply from just 1 day ago on that forum post that says:

I just searched "country in africa that starts with k" and it used your comment as a snippet answer

EDIT: I also sent feedback on that result. I suggest others do the same if you see it. Only way these things get fixed is if they're reported to the people who can fix them.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 1 year ago

The closest is Kenya, which start with K sound, but is actually spelled with a K sound

What drug are they on???

[-] Frellwit@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Append

(intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy")

to your search query to search all indexed Lemmy instances. Works with Google, Startpage, SearXNG.

[-] mrmhm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The nature of it being federated probably doesn't help with SEO much.

[-] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Lemmy Kilmister is the one true Lemmy and the one true god.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I have found some stuff adding Lemmy to my searches, just as I used to do with Reddit...

It is gonna take time until it fully supports it though.

[-] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is indexed. Time and algorithm deciding it’s useful will make it show up higher.

[-] the_medium_kahuna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not particularly. I kind of like Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general, growing organically as people discover it, rather than it being the shiny new thing

[-] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, I hear ya - but a vast majority of what helped Reddit (or any community) pick up, is DIY and self generated content.

If that content can't be found easily - ex; via search engine, or the content is entirely missing, then it doesn't really help either cause. That's just my 2 cents, because let's face it, the search on Lemmy is fragmented and I think the help of big data could be promising.

[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It pains me to see that most open source projects suck boulders at both branding and basic SEO

[-] coolasbreeze@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It is getting better

[-] Bananablob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

I use other search engines such as duckduckgo which are better for privacy and less aimed at steering you to the websites that are using the search engine's ad services. They do have a deal with Bing, so I might be wrong.

I don't think people are gonna adopt Lemmy because they stumbled on it from Google searches.

this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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