[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fan Fiction

[Heidi]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:32:09 -0000, dumbledore11214
<dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If someone can provide links to the other stories, I will be very
> grateful too, because I also find searching on fictionalley to be
> very frustrating.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but it was my impression that you cannot
> search by story title there, right?

Actually, you can, but you have to search by house, individually. At
one point, we wanted to get a Google comprehensive search thingy for
the whole site, but the cost was something like a thousand dollars a
year, which we don't have handy. There's two different sets of pages
on which you can do that type of search:

http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/ is our general issue
search page, with a number of different search engines. You can type
in an author name, a title, or a quote from a story into the GOOGLE
box on top, select the house, and see if you get lucky. If you don't,
on the next page, change the house, and you'll get it after three more
tries, if not before. It's a full text search engine, which is nice.

You can also follow the links from that page to the
keyword/authorname/.title search for each house - they're also at
http://www.schnoogle.com/cgi-bin/links/search.cgi
http://www.astronomytower.org/cgi-bin/links/search.cgi
http://www.thedarkarts.org/cgi-bin/links/search.cgi
http://www.riddikulus.org/cgi-bin/links/search.cgi

And, of course, all the reviewboard pages, as well as al lthe Park
pages, and every single fic listing page, includes a set of links to
fund authors by name, if you remember an author's name.

Anyhow, Crystaline Darkness and Guild of the Night are both at
http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Katling/ - they're by the same
author.

And we are working on a comprehensive search engine/fic archive
database - it's been in the making for a *long* time, and I'm really
pushing the techies to finish it well enough before HBP comes out. :
crosses fingers


Heidi (FA Admin, longtime HPfGUer)