I assembled a huge list of domains like this and created a custom search engine using this tool from Google. Unfortunately despite it being Google, the search results are really terrible, so I never posted it. (Example: a search for “capacity-building” returns 5 results, none of which are this page. I know it’s picking up concepts.effectivealtruism.org because when I search for “moral uncertainty” the #2 result is from concepts.effectivealtruism.org. BTW, I included quite a number of domains in the search engine, not all the results are necessarily EA-related.)
https://searchstack.co is a nice little tool which makes use of the site:A OR site:B mechanism, but unfortunately I believe Google caps the number of distinct domains you can search using that trick? But maybe we could use multiple searchstacks for different EA subtopics. I think if there are search companies that actually do a good job of allowing you to create a custom search engine, that would be the ideal solution, even if it requires paying a monthly fee. If someone else wants to take initiative on this, I’d love to collaborate.
It’d be especially cool if a search engine could search Facebook group archives, since there’s so much EA discussion in those.
When I search for capacity building as suggested in the post, it seems to me that the results are ok: I get about 600 results, and the first result is actually the page you mentioned. It’s surprising that one cannot get the custom search engine to reproduce this. (And it’s good to know that we can get around this by just generating Google queries as in the link above!) Thanks for pointing out searchstack.co, it looks very interesting!
I assembled a huge list of domains like this and created a custom search engine using this tool from Google. Unfortunately despite it being Google, the search results are really terrible, so I never posted it. (Example: a search for “capacity-building” returns 5 results, none of which are this page. I know it’s picking up concepts.effectivealtruism.org because when I search for “moral uncertainty” the #2 result is from concepts.effectivealtruism.org. BTW, I included quite a number of domains in the search engine, not all the results are necessarily EA-related.)
https://searchstack.co is a nice little tool which makes use of the site:A OR site:B mechanism, but unfortunately I believe Google caps the number of distinct domains you can search using that trick? But maybe we could use multiple searchstacks for different EA subtopics. I think if there are search companies that actually do a good job of allowing you to create a custom search engine, that would be the ideal solution, even if it requires paying a monthly fee. If someone else wants to take initiative on this, I’d love to collaborate.
It’d be especially cool if a search engine could search Facebook group archives, since there’s so much EA discussion in those.
When I search for capacity building as suggested in the post, it seems to me that the results are ok: I get about 600 results, and the first result is actually the page you mentioned. It’s surprising that one cannot get the custom search engine to reproduce this. (And it’s good to know that we can get around this by just generating Google queries as in the link above!) Thanks for pointing out searchstack.co, it looks very interesting!