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That feeling when you're googling the answer to some technical question, and your own Lemmy post appears 4 results down. (lemmy.one)
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Hopefully this kind of content is ok here. Up until recently, when I would be searching for some kind of technical info, the top (and best) results would usually all be Reddit posts. I was very pleasantly surprised to do that this time and find a Lemmy post instead!

...It did happen to be a post from me, so unfortunately didn't answer my question at all, but I still thought it was really neat and wanted to share. Has anyone else seen Lemmy stuff getting indexed and turning up in their search results?

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[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, does that mean we're finally googleable? That's pretty cool.

[–] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is it'll vary instance by instance. You have to get on Google's radar to start search your content.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that happens by people linking to it.

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Google Page Rank. I heard of that myth once before.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to start injecting my posts with SEO nonsense

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit programming funny Google lemmy search results...

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