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Find Lemmy Resources Universally (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by original_reader@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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In the past, we would type something like site:reddit.com into a search engine to get to the resource we needed. In the meantime, I have already found a few useful tips on Lemmy instances by using the Lemmy search. But since all Lemmy instances are named differently, a simple site:lemmy won't work well in a search engine.

Do you see a solution for this? Or do we leave this to the search providers to figure out?

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You can append (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy") to your search query to search through all Lemmy instances.

People are already working on unified search tool, it's not really hard as all you need is a list of instances and and a way to index them.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What search engine(s) are we talking about? I recognize OP's syntax as something that works in Google, but maybe it works in Bing too? I'm not familiar with "intext", what engine(s) does it work with?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Google and any metasearch engine that uses Google results like Startpage, Leta, SearX, etc. Not sure about Bing.

[–] Retiring@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ddg does not use google afaik

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my bad. It was on mind so I just typed it even though it's unrelated to what I was thinking.

[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh that's a neat way to work around this.