How to Search Lemmy & Kbin using Google (jambitlabs.com)

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I saw someone post about FediSearch, its very helpful but a little inconvenient to have to switch search engines just for lemmy, so I implemented their search query directly into my browser with Chrome's search shortcuts. Figured I'd write up a guide since this seems to be one thing a lot of y'all are missing from reddit, hope it's helpful :D

(This works for Chrome but not Firefox - they don't allow you to create custom search shortcuts.)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can absolutely do this in Firefox. Here is a guide on mozilla.org from 2006: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did a couple of test and it didn't give me any useful results, and I'm subscribed to many group who use the keyword in their name.

For now I think that lemmy internal search is way better.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's no replacement for "site:reddit.com", but it could be due to there not being that much content on Lemmy at the moment.

When searching for single words (I tested with "jellyfin" and "dnd") I can find results no problem, but the more specific queries that I would previously do with reddit (eg. "dnd point buy") turn up nothing useful.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean lemmy internal search. Anyway evrething is moving so fast, i'll test it again in a couple days.

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