I am sorry the question is confusing.

But some Google searches give much better results if you add “reddit” to the end of your query. This ends up generating a lot of traffic for Reddit.

Anyone found a way to search something but hint Google to look at Lemmy?

      • rockstarmode@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’m guessing that search would turn up results for any instance LW is federated with? If not that would be disappointing!

      • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Yeah I’m new to Lemmy and still getting used to the whole instance thing. Apparently you can use “related:” to include results that are similar. In the below example, I did a Google search for “ukraine related:lemmy -site:reddit.com”.

    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      Just as a FYI:

      You don’t need the + to include things on Google. Anything you type that isn’t prefaced with a minus symbol already means “include this”. Also, using quotes means you want an exact match.

      Additionally, you could shorten to this:

      Search keywords here -site:Reddit.com site:lemmy.world “exact match keywords, if you want”

      And just for funsies—you can use related: as an operator to find sites that are similar to something.

      • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        You don’t need the + to include things on Google.

        Yeah I don’t know why I added that. Kinda dumb on my part.

        And just for funsies—you can use related: as an operator to find sites that are similar to something.

        I think this is what OP was really looking for. I did a Google search for “ukraine related:lemmy -site:reddit.com” and got this, which seems to be the kind of results OP is looking for: