I wanted to check if the community I was about to post in already had a similar post. When I selected that community in the search page and typed in the keywords, I still got the results from other communities and instances.

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Yeah , do you guys know?

I have being looking for the get in the pea… meme that I saw on Lemmy I had no idea how to look for it in here. Also if there is a way to do it the apps that could also be helpful.

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It seems the general search is meant to do that. But it doesn’t, at least not well.

Here is an example, which should find your post, but does not (for me).

The core insight is to use the ‘community’ dropdown. Helped me find some things, but as this example shows, does not work reliably. I could not find your post by searching for full title, title parts, body parts.

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Here is an example, which should find your post, but does not (for me).

Neither for me. Adding quotes also returns no results. Can you share an example where it works?

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Can you share an example where it works?

The above link only yields results from asklemmy@lemmy.ml. So in a way, it is what you asked for.

This query shows me your post as the first result.

This query shows me my comment as the first result.

Yes it is unreliable, but it’s the best I know to (sometimes) do the job. I would also appreciate a better solution, that’s how I came to this thread.

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This query shows me your post as the first result.

This query shows me my comment as the first result.

Interesting, they don’t seem to work for me. Can’t find neither my post, nor your comment.

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If there’s a way to do it, I don’t know it. But it’s on my list of features to recommend for future iterations of Lemmy.

One thing I haven’t been able to check out yet is to see if posts are search-engine-facing.

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One thing I haven’t been able to check out yet is to see if posts are search-engine-facing.

I tried to google those keywords using site:lemmy.world but had no results :(

Maybe they haven’t indexed the site yet.

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Or maybe they just aren’t going to index the Fediverse at all. Giant corporations have to stick together, after all!

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