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.
Thanks Jc! The Hub team has been thinking about having an "Search all of EA" button for a while, but it never quite bubbled up to the top of our to do list. Your explanation of how it could work, as well as John Maxwell's description, make it seem more doable than I previously thought. I'll be discussing this with the rest of the team.
Yep, this feature would be extremely useful! Indeed, for some programming languages such customized google engines exist and works reasonably well. Don't know how they did that, but here are two examples: https://rseek.org/ and http://steampiano.net/julia-search/index.html .
Awesome, I hope it will work out!