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December 19, 2005
Comic text search engine
Thanks to Tara at ResearchBuzz for finding OhNoRobot, a search engine for the text in online comic strips. They're indexing 232 different comics right now (that page is also a great place to get comic RSS feeds in one place). The search engine seems to work well, but a lot of the more mainstream online comics that I know of aren't included. In fact, as Tara points out, a lot of the comics included are extremely alternative--and perhaps not always safe for work. Reader beware.
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Yes, that whole legality thing...bah. Good point, though, and thanks for letting us know you're working on it! It's a great service.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton (LiB) | December21, 2005
FWIW, we're working on the more popular online-based comics and hope to have a few in by this time next month. Print comics that happen to be online like DILBERT are tricksier, because they usually (a) disappear without warning or (b) are being file-shared illegally. But we're working on it!
--T Campbell
Posted by: | December21, 2005
