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No Stupid Questions

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Since reddits search function is a hot pile of garbage, I mostly used google to find threads when I needed community based information.

Video card acting up? No problem.

rx 6700 xt known driver issues reddit

Want to check out some discussion about an older TV series episode?

always sunny s02e13 discussion reddit

Problem is I don't know how to look tings up here via google

Should I give up the convenience of searching things from my address bar and use the built in search,or is there some secret sauce for googling stuff?

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[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Someone made a multi-instamce search that is pretty great imho. its at https://fedi-search.com . You can choose which search engine you like even. I just added the favicon to my bookmark bar and use that when I specifically want Lemmy results.

[–] YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is great! Thank you!

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you to the developer for not pulling a lmgtfy and using a search engine wrapper injected with its own ads.

[–] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Type: site:lemmy.world [search term here]

[–] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that get results from other instances though?

[–] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You could do site:lemmy.* to search all instances with lemmy in the name.

[–] Targo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The wildcard works too, so site:lemmy.* will show you results from more instances than site:lemmy.world but will still omit stuff from instances like beehaw.org for example.

I suspect that there's going to be a more elegant solution to this problem in the coming months.

[–] budgard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I already knew about the site: operator(?), but didn't know it accepts wildcards. Great tip thanks!

[–] codenul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have submitted "!lemmy" to DDG as one of their Bang indicators. See if it gets approved. Saw this topic over on Lemmy.world where someone mentioned this, but it seems like i cant login into lemmy.world or crosspost, or even see all teh comments on this page. Still learning!

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As others have said, add site:lemmy.world (in your case - others should use their own server name) to whatever you're googling for. For example: https://ddg.gg/rx%206700%20xt%20known%20driver%20issues%20site:lemmy.world

[–] variouslegumes@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there probably won't be a great search experience that includes results from every lemmy instance. It'd be a neat problem to work on.