I’m curious as to why Lemmy rarely shows up in search results on the main internet even if there is a post related to the search input. I’ve only ever seen a Lemmy result if Lemmy is specified. Is this because we’re still relatively small or some other reason?
I’ve seen my own posts show up in specific search results based on the transcripts, which is nice to see. Tried searching for “Great Scott! The hatch is opening” on Google just now and it linked to my post at https://discuss.online/post/14315116
Kagi has a feature for specifically searching the fediverse. It’s a paid search engine, but IMO that ends up with their incentives aligned with mine.
Each fediverse instance is ranked separately that’s the biggest issue. Each specific post is ranked based on the instance of the community its from due to content origin links. So the same post isn’t ranked separately but each instance is only ranked based on the posts to its own communities.
Woah, I use Kagi and I didn’t even know about this.