Adding Custom Search Engines in Chrome/Chromium/Brave

Why Custom Search Engines?

• Quickly search ALA or GBIF issues and documentation directly from the browser’s address bar.
• Save time and avoid extra clicks and navigation.
• Check for existing issues, similar discussions, or previous solutions before creating a new issue or wiki page.
• Instead you can read previous conversations, improve documentation, or add missing issues or wiki pages.

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Proposed Search Engines to Add

Name	Proposed shortcut	Search URL
ALA wiki	alaw	https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation/search?q=%s&type=Wikis
ALA github	ala	https://github.com/search?q=org%3AAtlasOfLivingAustralia+%s
GBIF github	gbifgit	https://github.com/search?q=org%3Agbif+%s

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🌐 Adding in Chrome/Chromium/Brave

1. Open Search Engine Settings

   • Enter chrome://settings/searchEngines in a new tab.

2. Scroll to “Site Search” and Click “Add”

3. Enter the details for our ALA documentation wiki:

   • Name: ALA wiki
   • Shortcut: alaw
   • URL: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation/search?q=%s&type=Wikis

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🌐 Adding in Chrome/Chromium/Brave (cont)

4. Repeat for ALA Repositories:

   • Name: ALA github
   • Shortcut: ala
   • URL: https://github.com/search?q=org%3AAtlasOfLivingAustralia+%s

5. you can do something similar for fast-searching GBIF repositories:

   • Name: GBIF github
   • Shortcut: gbifgit
   • URL: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Agbif+%s

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✅ Testing the Search Engines

• Open a new tab.
• Type alaw some_query or ala some_query (in some cases you should use TAB instead of SPACE).
• Press Enter to search directly on GitHub.

Now you have quick access to ALA and GBIF repositories! 🚀