Yes, Google is aware of the Reddit trick for searches. - The Verge
www.theverge.comCNBC shared this from a Google all-hands this month: One tool to try and help with that is Google’s new Perspectives feed that’s designed to show results from humans. But now that many of the protesting subreddits have opened up, the Reddit trick isn’t as nerfed as it used to be.
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Yes, but it’s not as easy as appending “lemmy”. Here, the content is spread over a wide number of URLs, and unlike reddit, they don’t rank super high in the results.
But thanks to federation, search engines should eventually pick up most content, even when concentrating on just a few big instances. I’m guessing that eventually, you’ll be able to do a search with
site:lemmy.mland get most results (as with that many users, chances are high any other post has been copied via federation). Until then, you might need a more widespread search, I created a lens for kagi (paid search engine), that searches the biggest instances: kbin.social, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemm.ee, programming.devThe result is this:
That does not work with
site:lemmy.mland would instead requiresite:lemmy.worldon google.Caveat: Duplicate content detection might really throw things off. Normally, if two sites have the same content, but different URLs and no
canonicalhtml reference, then one will be detected as spam (or should be), I’m not sure how search engine indexing will be affected by this in the future.That’s interesting that lemmy doesn’t generate canonicals. I would have thought that the original instance something is posted on would set the canonical, and other instances can point back to that - it really seems like this sort of problem is exactly what canonicals are made for. Does anyone know if there’s a reason for not using them (other than dev time, which is 100% a good reason)?