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Strip Search

Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 09:46 AM

After nearly two years of work, we finally have our search feature live on the site. You can use it to search the news, the forums, and even the text of the entire comics archive. Our Comics Search interface displays the lines of dialogue and other indexed items that match your search so you can find that one comic you've been looking for but can't, for the life of you, remember where it is in the archive. News and Forums results also display the relevant snippets of text that your search matched in a handy-dandy DHTML gizmo (in newer browsers, anyway -- older ones just see a plain-old title attribute) that appears when you mouseover the result links.

You can find the search forms on the homepage above the news, on the archive pages above the series guide, and in the footer of every page. We'll be sprinking links to the form liberally about the site as the need arises, as well.

This wasn't just the result of our efforts; this project would never have been accomplished if not for the help of a handful of dedicated readers who entered and double-checked every single line of dialogue, every single prop, and every single sound effect from the 1300+ comic strips in our archive. Mad props (haha) go to Chad, jgarcia, luvrhino, Rich, Oedipa_Maas, mjfgates, misere, punkalicia, unFalln, Menippus, albionsoft, zamphir, and dha. Thank you, guys, for all your hard work. And we'd especially like to thank Simon Larsen (aka tor), our resident jedi who brainstormed the idea for this project, who designed and constructed the intitial database and administrative tools, entered the data for literally hundreds of strips, connived other people into helping him, and then helped us get it up and running on the site. Thank you so much, Simon, and if there's anyone you need killed, let us know.


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