I’ve searched for older Lemmy posts on Google just to see if they are getting indexed and I don’t think most are? Can anyone else confirm. I think if Lemmy showed up in more google searches like Reddit it would bring new users

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Based on a quick look, from the best to worse: DuckDuckGo > Google > Quant > Bing

    Unless search engines decide to integrate a dedicated filter to Fediverse, it will always be hard to search even if it’s indexed. Cross posts, quote posts are not search engine friendly features.

    • Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      Welcome here!

      I heard Kagi has a specific Fediverse lens that can be used. Hopefully other will follow