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by Kiro 1096 days ago
I find their search amazing. What's your issue with it?
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Here's just one issue:

They stem words aggressively, so searching for "repeater", which is a less common, specific term, gives you results including "repeat", a commonly used word. And there's no way to do an exact word search.

The issue is it's not indexed by Google
There was a recent post about an open source tool for indexing Discord content and making it available for Google search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36383773

have you used google lately? might as well not be indexed with all the seo spam you get as top results
> have you used google lately? might as well not be indexed with all the seo spam you get as top results

I just googled "how to use openllm" as an example to test your thesis, and the results look very relevant to me.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=how+to+...

You might want to glance again because all of those results are for a different product.
Top of the results page says:

"Showing results for how to use openlm

Search instead for how to use openllm"

FYI, specifying the nfpr=1 query string parameter will disable Google's idiot attempt to try be helpful by searching for something other than that which you want to link to.
when I click this google gives me results for “how to use openlm” a commercial product, they literally change your search term if there’s a product that fits