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I found that when I entered terms like "climate change", "clean energy", "renewable", "global warming", etc. that I received no suggestions. (Eventually, with additional research, I discovered that the right to site to join is probably Earth Science Stack Exchange.)

Is there a way for community members to define or submit additional terms to Stack Exchange (I'll call them "Also Known As" terms) which the find-a-community search feature will then use to provide better recommendations to someone who is looking for a community to join?

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    Another way of finding a site is by browsing through the list and reading the names and descriptions. In that case you can speed the process up a bit by looking a a specific category on the site overview page. For example stackexchange.com/sites#science-name lists the 24 sites in the Science category, which is easier to browse than the full list of 182 sites in the dropdown.
    – Marijn
    Commented Dec 11, 2023 at 13:10
  • I think you want to search across all sites' tags. Searching for "climate" would find the climate-change tag at Earth Science, but also at Politics and Skeptics, and the climate-science tag at Physics, and perhaps more at other sites. Would that help you?
    – Jeffrey Bosboom
    Commented Dec 11, 2023 at 21:48
  • Is searching across all sites' tags something you can do today? If so, how?
    – phil1008
    Commented Dec 11, 2023 at 22:51
  • @phil1008 It's probably possible with SEDE, but I don't have a query handy, and SEDE isn't something most users are expected to interact with.
    – Jeffrey Bosboom
    Commented Dec 12, 2023 at 3:56
  • The list of sites at the link you provided is useful. If an experienced user can use SEDE to help the find-a-site search feature make better suggestions, that would be worth expanding on. If SEDE can only help a new user with "rad skills" do a more advanced search, that's less useful.
    – phil1008
    Commented Dec 12, 2023 at 6:05

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This search is using the site names and descriptions, so in order to e.g. have "climate change" trigger the site as result, you can ask in the per-site meta to add it to the site description.

Another option is using a search engine like Google and narrow the results to be only from stackexchange.com e.g. site:stackexchange.com "global warming":

search results for global warming in stack exchange

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I think it doesn't really make sense to add keywords for communities there.

  • Firstly, it's a simple tool designed to quickly find a community in a very long list of communities by name—not a search engine.
  • Secondly, using that quick menu to find communities using keywords, might give users the idea that a question asking after anything related to the keyword that brought them to a site is on-topic. Which is highly unlikely.
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