One of the side effects of the reddit meltdown is that many search results were unavailable because of communities going private. It would be great if we could fill in the void with lemmy content instead.

  • 0485
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    381 year ago

    Yes it does!

  • topnomi
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    241 year ago

    I heard that reddit has a dedicated cdn each for Microsoft and Google scraping. That’s why they work so well to search reddit posts. It will probably take some effort to feed data so we’ll from the fediverse.

    On that note, perhaps we should have some per-community as well as per-post scrape/noscrape toggle. Might be difficult to get buy-in from all parties.

    • Trebach
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      61 year ago

      Whether a community gets to opt out of being scraped depends on the scraper respecting robots.txt and/or the meta tag of the page.

      Not all do, particularly the ones scraping for SEO purposes, so instances might to add IP bans for scrapers that refuse to respect restrictions in those places.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    I’ve just tried a quick test using some popular queries and it looks as though communities are indexed but individual posts aren’t? I agree, it would be nice to replace Reddit in this regard.

    Maybe the above is only a temporary measure to help maintain server load?

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Some google searches already give me Lemmy posts, so it seems to work. I think indexing Lemmy posts takes more time, as I couldn’t find my ‘blog article’ about hosting Lemmy on a Raspberry Pi or the community where it was posted yet trough Google yet. But I was able to find older communities on Feddit.nl, So most of the posts probably can’t be found yet, as they simply are too new.

  • Zerlyna
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    111 year ago

    At the same time, I see people making “news articles” using people’s Reddit posts. More people making money on our content.

  • MadWorks
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    1 year ago

    I think Duck Duck Go has the ability to search.

    • @tst123
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      • SirShanova
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        31 year ago

        Bruh what? No way. Man, I’ve been staring at that box in their homepage for YEARS waiting for some functionality. So glad they updated it. Maybe they’ll even get some results in the next decade!

  • BlackCoffee
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    61 year ago

    I used “F1 lemmy” multiple times in google already and the top post(s) were links to the F1 lemmy.

    It works.

  • hiyaaaaa23
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    31 year ago

    Probably but you’re not seeing it lemmy is not large enough to have the same tracktion as Reddit

  • Zerlyna
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    11 year ago

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    01 year ago

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