Google brings it up
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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https://lemmy.ml/robots.txt , https://lemmy.world/robots.txt , etc don't seem to disallow posts, so the text-based content should be easy to index, at least for these instances.
related news: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts.
How long does it usually take for google to index websites? Because I tried the string lemmy site:lemmy.ml after:2023-06-15 and only one post turned up for me and it was Memes... the current state of affairs does not seem promising ๐ And if I tried with another instance with the same keywords lemmy site:kbin.social after:2023-06-15 nothing even turned up.
I wonder though, will search engines adapt to Lemmy and its fediverse system? Or will search engines die? Or will we see dedicated search engines to search through the fediverse?
How long does it usually take for google to index websites?
Anything between a couple of hours to more than a week, I don't think having a "real-time feed" through Google is important though. Other than world cup scores, their results were never about speed.
The second link for me when searching for Lemmy on Google is the link to the "Join Lemmy" website. Surprisingly, Brave Search, which has seemingly no search bubbles or accounts, shows the same.
Sorry I didnt make the post very clear. I was referring to an individual posts when people search for a specific issue/discussion in Lemmy.
I tried searching for the title of this post verbatim and it isn't in google results period.
I can't find anything within the fediverse from Google, just lame high level 'what is it' from pseudo tech sites t that all tend to copy each other's content
Oh, good point. Yes, probably? We can not simply assume search engines know that all of these point to the same content:
- https://slrpnk.net/c/technology
- https://feddit.de/c/technology@slrpnk.net
- https://sopuli.xyz/c/technology@slrpnk.net
- https://beehaw.org/c/technology@slrpnk.net
Or even worse, due to defederation, they may not all point to the exact same content.
Without further investment either from lemmy or the search engine's side, they are probably seen as distinct sources, not aggregated. Which makes each individually less relevant and less likely to show up .
Also note none of the adresses above contain 'lemmy'. How would users search for content on lemmy in these cases? Can't do "technology site:lemmy", or?
But I can say, lemmy content is visible. Haven't seen it on the first page of ecosia yet, but on page 2 or 3.
Maybe you could use use site:lemmy.ml, because they federate with most instances, they're likely to have most of lemmy's content?