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tal ,
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In all seriousness, Google needs to get on providing an easier way to specify that a search should hit the Fediverse. site:reddit.com works for Reddit, but there is presently no analogous operator on Google's search for a distributed system that spans many domains.

I mean, it's great that you've made this, don't get me wrong, but they really should do that as well.

Cinner ,

Search Term intext:"Powered by kbin"

maybe?

https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+intext:%22Powered+by+kbin%22&hl=en&prmd=ivsn&filter=0&biw=414&bih=726&dpr=2.61#ip=1

0x1C3B00DA ,
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but there is presently no analogous operator on Google's search for a distributed system that spans many domains.

Because that's just a basic search. A search engine searches across multiple domains by default. If you're specifically looking for only results from ActivityPub enabled services, that's pretty much an impossibility since there's no way to know (from a web crawl) if a page is served by a server that supports ActivityPub. Another problem is that a lot of fediverse instances purposefully block search engine crawlers because they don't want to appear in search results.

Polymath ,

I like the idea of scrapping Google altogether, and just having “better” search engines here that account for federated decouplings/distributions

Not entirely the same, but I switched over to Presearch a year or so ago, just to get away from Google and the “big tech” corporations

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