Comic text search engine
December 19, 2005
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.
December 21st, 2005 at 1:55 pm
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
December 21st, 2005 at 6:35 pm
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.