To comment on your last question. In theory, yes it can, but practically it will be as tricky as Google’s method. It will be much more user-friendly for end-user though, you just have to ask “Is the housing market about to burst? fediverse top posts” and I would imagine the results will be pretty relevant.
So is there a way to search across instances?
Seriously, this will distance google from usefulness even further. Chatbots already at the jugular of google right now.
Can the big AI companies crawl and harvest lemmy and fediverse?
To comment on your last question. In theory, yes it can, but practically it will be as tricky as Google’s method. It will be much more user-friendly for end-user though, you just have to ask “Is the housing market about to burst? fediverse top posts” and I would imagine the results will be pretty relevant.