OC I created a site that helps people search the fediverse

I had been having trouble getting meaningful results from the fediverse on Google, and after seeing this post, it seems I'm not the only one. So, I created a site that helps search the fediverse in your search engine of choice (it currently supports Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Dogpile).

Due to query limitations with most search engines, it currently only searches the top 15 lemmy/kbin instances, but I've tested it and it seems to provide access to a good chunk of fediverse content. The exception is Google, which should be far more reliable overall as well as providing the ability to search Mastodon and PeerTube.

If you have contributions or ideas for improvement, feel free to check out the project here or shoot me a message. Hope this helps people! :)

https://fedi-search.com/

Edit: Update in progress including improved search queries and support for Mastodon/PeerTube (Google only, unfortunately)

Edit 2: Update is live, along with a dedicated domain name. If the website doesn't look any different for you, try Ctrl+F5 or clearing site data - it seems some browsers are caching the old page.

tal, (edited )
tal avatar

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.

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

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.

Tywele,

Would be great to have ecosia.org as an option for the search engine :)

EmpathicVagrant,

Won’t let me upvote so I’m commenting to show love instead.

cindybyrd547,
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Icarus,

have you considered redirecting to whoogle or searx ? you can use farside.link which automatically redirects to a working instance. it would be helpful for people who want to avoid using Google

TenorTheHusky, (edited )
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I will absolutely check this out, thanks for the suggestion!

Edit: I can't get searx working at all for me, but I went ahead and implemented whoogle support

Poot,
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Thank you!!

catsarebadpeople,

Thank you!

Utzmetah,

Thank you! good idea!

dekkzz76,
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@TenorTheHusky

just use kbin's native search

TenorTheHusky,
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Each one has its upsides and downsides. Kbin's search is more convenient for certain use cases, but it suffers from the same problem as Reddit's search - it always sorts by new no matter what. In addition, it can only index instances with which kbin has federated. FediSearch should in theory index every instance, regardless of federation status, and do so in such a way that the most useful posts show first (assuming Google does its job).

dekkzz76,
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@TenorTheHusky

google is crap at searching the fediverse

briongloid, (edited )
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I seem to only be getting results from one instance I'm not interested in.

It was weird that one instance, which isn't the most populated dominated my search results, it would help if you could deselect whichever instances under the initial search tab, with the selection cached.

Kind of like with NZBHYDRA self-hosted, where you can deselect indexers;

https://i.imgur.com/bUUsfok.png

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thx

redhydride,

That's fantastic! Thank you!

VE3VVS,
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very nicely done!

kzhe,

You should make this be able to be used as a search engine with a certain address with the search text in some part of it redirecting to the search of that, so like for example as a vivaldi user with many search engines I could add it.

brasilikum,

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