Hate when the reddit links shows up first even tho its related to lemmy not reddit

I don’t see the problem with this search result. You searched for Lemmy clients and the first link gives a list of Lemmy clients for Android. It happens to be on Reddit but it does match your search.

Google paid good money to index Reddit, so OFC they're going to put their thumb on the scale when sorting the results.

Google made a deal with Reddit so they artificially push their results to the top. I don’t even know if Google indexes any of the fediverse sites. The mere fact that the fediverse is fragmented probably means hits are spread across sites, lowering the results in the rankings (ten sites with one customer click thru vs one site with ten customer click thrus).

You are using Google which only prioritizes companies they have deals with.

Don't use Google if you want real answers

I know it's a circumvention of the issue, and at times annoying, but you can add -site:reddit.com to the search to rule out a site, iirc

Also, there is great info at lemmyapps.com and the Lemmy Apps Directory.

Use a better search engine?

Bye bye google, hello duckduckgo or SearXNG.

Google pays reddit to show their results in priority.

Meh. Lemmy's ephemeral, and there's no way Google can tell that a link on lemmya.ml and on lemmyb.xxx are actually the same Lemmy post.

tbh, this is a lemmy issue.

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Reddit bills search engines for scraping the site now, and Google is the only one that's agreed to pay.

Use another search engine and you'll get less reddit results.

Use -reddit.com to remove Reddit from your search results.

Use site: to limit results to a specific site. For example, adding site:lemmy.world will limit all search results to lemmy.world.

It will take some time before the algorithm picks it up.

When I searched Lemmy Clients first result was a Wiki page, second was the actual join lemmy page, and the third being a Lemmy you should know post about clients

Because I need more links here’s another one with client directory from the lemmy post and this one is me keyboard mashing

That's just another reminder to stop using Google

It’s worth “comparison shopping” with search engines. Run some common queries on multiple engines and see which ones fit what you like. Google takes up a lot of the mindshare for sure, but there are absolutely other options that will probably surprise you with how good they are.

Give kagi a try. Downranking websites is a fantastic feature

I've been using Kagi for a while now and I love it. I actually get useful search results. Yeah, it's paid, but it's sooo worth it.

Here's what your query looks like in Kagi:

Voyager best btw

I’ve just accepted the tons of Brave downvotes at this point. At least 80% of it’s profit doesn’t come from having Google as the default search engine 🙂

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