I mean, I know one way is using a crawler that loads a number of known pages and attempts to follow all its listed links, or at least the ones that lead to different top level domains, which is how I believe most engines started off

But how would you find your way out of “bubbles”? Let’s say that, following all the links from the sites you started off, none point to abc.xyz. How could you discover that site otherwise?

  • @solrizeEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    If you mean Lemmy’s internal search engine, it will probably go through evolution and improvement in the coming months, just like everything else about Lemmy. If you want to index Lemmy with your own search engine, you’ll want to connect it up to ActivityPub but why not help out with the internal one, or anyway share your experiences?

    From what perspective are you asking? Are you a search implementer? I think the field is going through rapid change, so you will want to stay on top of things.