Here's a first: did a Google search on something and one of my own Mastodon posts came up as a result.

Beginning to think that the cultural norm here of not allowing search isn't going to last all that much longer.

@mmasnick
Yep, Google Alerts alerted me as well.
https://t.joeldebruijn.nl/notice/ATIZgBuDIMwnBqCFX6
Joël de Bruijn (@[email protected])

🤔 I know adding universal search to the Fediverse is a hot topic. 🙈 Meanwhile my Google Alert gave a Mastodon alert for the first time so one way or another we will be crawled, indexed and retriev...