Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope
Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope
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You're still using google? Ew. People like you make me lose hope.
;P
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Eh, ill go there if duckduck doesnt find what im looking for.
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Duckduck is just a wrapper for bing (and gives microsoft trackers a free pass)
Startpage is a similar thing that uses google. Considering how hated bing is believe Duck only got more popular because of privacy marketing.
The safest alternative is running your own searxng client, it still relies on bing and google but at least you can verify that its actually stopping all trackers.
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Actually how does Lemmy and the Fediverse even work for search engines with regard to duplication? Do each instance only show posts from communities which are moderated on the instance, and dynamically show a robots.txt to ignore federated communities? Or since posts federate, does each instance a post federates to show up in search results? I could see the latter being really annoying to someone who doesn't understand what's going on, and keeps getting results for the same exact post, although would be nice to have a replacement for adding
site:reddit.comto some search results.
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op: searches "lemmy"
few seconds later: "wow, al results are about lemmy"
LET ME HAVE THIS!
Lmao what did you really type?
This used to be not the case.
Tbh I still get mostly motorhead
I mean it's interesting that it has surpassed Kilmister as the top result in some regions/contexts and is definitely more numerous.
Neat
I wonder how Google (and the search engines that depend on Google) decide which person/entity to feature in the snippet. At what point would Lemmy the software replace Lemmy the person?
For example, "Swift" brings up the financial organization, while "Taylor" brings up Taylor Swift
Mmmm.. hope.