I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!

  • MamboGator@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    87
    ·
    9 months ago

    I can’t wait until we can start appending “lemmy” to our search strings in order to find useful results.

        • macattack@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          16
          ·
          9 months ago

          SearXNG has a the same functionality as well for free:

          You can self-host it or use one of the publicly available instances.

          • qaz@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            9 months ago

            I wasn’t able to find an option to use Lemmy search an several public instances. Do you know an instance that supports this?

            • macattack@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              9 months ago

              I am self hosting my version so that is where my screenshot came from.

              If I were looking for a public instance to use that has this functionality, I’d look to some of the European hosts as they are less likely to use Reddit as their de facto platform relative to Americans

              • qaz@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                9 months ago

                Does self-hosting with those extensions require a lot of system resources?

                • macattack@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  8 months ago

                  Not in my experience. I am running a docker container and it is one of +10 containers running on my server which is basically a laptop from a few years ago. So far no issues.

          • spez@sh.itjust.worksOP
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            9 months ago

            That’s great! I had no idea you could specifically search for lemmy content in search engines (albeit niche).

        • Steve@communick.news
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          9 months ago

          That’s why all the top results on every search are actual results, instead of a bunch of ads.
          Totally worth it.

          • JustUseMint@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            9 months ago

            I’m struggling with kagi because I do notike my searches tied to an account/profile (a paid CC and name and address etc.)

            I like kagi but this is making me want to cancel my membership. Thoughts?

            • Steve@communick.news
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              9 months ago

              They don’t keep a search history. Your searches aren’t tied to anything, because they aren’t even saved. They don’t have any reason to save them since they aren’t selling any targeted ads.

              • JustUseMint@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                5
                ·
                9 months ago

                This was my understanding as well. It’s the point of paying. However , it is just “trust me bro” right? It’s not like they’ve been audited for not storing user data? Even just basic logging too could hold user info. Honestly no idea with paid search engines, I know so little.

                • Steve@communick.news
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  5
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  9 months ago

                  My confidence is inversely proportional to any evidence you have to the contrary.