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I just learnt about a relatively new feature of Google: the ability to define your own search engine. After some tries in our own website, I found it was interesting for limiting searches to some content we planned to add (namely our tools documentation) but the requirement to add advertisements was a turn-off. I definitively do not want random ads in our website.

I looked into the Custom Search Engine settings and then I saw that non-profits are allowed to have no advertisements. Then suddenly an idea came thru. How about if there was a search engine whose search results included only content in the websites of GALA members?

It turned out that implementing it was simpler than I though, and here is the result:

The custom search engine could be added somewhere in the GALA website (and maintained as new members join GALA). Please note that the search engine in this blog post only lists websites for members as of the time of this writing.

I hope you like the idea of a GALA syndicated search.