Hopefully this kind of content is ok here. Up until recently, when I would be searching for some kind of technical info, the top (and best) results would usually all be Reddit posts. I was very pleasantly surprised to do that this time and find a Lemmy post instead!
…It did happen to be a post from me, so unfortunately didn’t answer my question at all, but I still thought it was really neat and wanted to share. Has anyone else seen Lemmy stuff getting indexed and turning up in their search results?
Take that, Stack Overflow! Programming.dev on deck!!! Let’s gooooooo
Hey, does that mean we’re finally googleable? That’s pretty cool.
My guess is it’ll vary instance by instance. You have to get on Google’s radar to start search your content.
Huh did Google start indexing lemmy?
Funnily enough my own instance has a such a bad SEO that when I searched up my username (to find out what is out there) I found all other instances my comments got copied to but not my own freaking instance.
Oh well. Yes Google does index instances but how well and often is another story.
I honestly don’t think Google crawlers knows how to index the fediverse but I am kind of talking out of my ass rn.
Pretty cool to start seeing Lemmy posts in search results
Hope the indexed instances don’t get taken down years down the road, or have some sort of independent archive to consult later.
That’s my biggest worry, however I’ve been programming for like 15 years now and there are forums I posted to that no longer exist, so I think its just a symptom of information as a whole.
Reddit was the bastion for this kind if stuff for a long time, and now there are a bunch of posts by this guy named [deleted] that have no post body so make of that what you will
You know it’s a unique question when lemmy is on the front page.
