How to Search Lemmy & Kbin using Google
How to Search Lemmy & Kbin using Google
*This method only works for Chrome browsers, for Firefox you should use bookmark keywords instead: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html The Issue Most of the time when I Googled something I ended up needing to add "site:reddit.com" to the end of my query to avoid
I saw someone post about FediSearch, its very helpful but a little inconvenient to have to switch search engines just for lemmy, so I implemented their search query directly into my browser with Chrome's search shortcuts. Figured I'd write up a guide since this seems to be one thing a lot of y'all are missing from reddit, hope it's helpful :D
(This works for Chrome but not Firefox - they don't allow you to create custom search shortcuts.)
I did a couple of test and it didn't give me any useful results, and I'm subscribed to many group who use the keyword in their name.
For now I think that the internal search is way better.
Yeah it's no replacement for "site:reddit.com", but it could be due to there not being that much content on Lemmy at the moment.
When searching for single words (I tested with "jellyfin" and "dnd") I can find results no problem, but the more specific queries that I would previously do with reddit (eg. "dnd point buy") turn up nothing useful.