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Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine
By John Farrier in Comics & Cartoons on Aug 11, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Computer programmer Michael Yingling developed a search engine for archived Calvin & Hobbes comic strips. Here are some tips for using it:
Currently the search only looks for EXACT phrases (not case sensitive), so if you’re looking for a comic with the words “balloon” and “airplane” you cannot enter them both, or it will search for “balloon airplane” together. Perhaps in the future I will fix this, but it’s actually a lot more difficult than leaving it as-is.
There is one exception though! You can search for a DATE and it will find that specific comic, though it MUST be of the format MM/DD/YYYY. So 09/01/1986 will work, but “Sept 1st ’86″ and “9/1/86″ wont – yet.
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I cried about it and even sent the author a letter of regret and consolation. You can still visit the site and look at what was left of something awesome.
Jeff Sovich
