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?
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.
Ooh that’s a neat way to work around this.
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?
Google and any metasearch engine that uses Google results like Startpage, Leta, SearX, etc. Not sure about Bing.
Ddg does not use google afaik
Yeah, my bad. It was on mind so I just typed it even though it’s unrelated to what I was thinking.