a Palantir for TOR - searching the forums and beyond

[StuartJ]

Following on from my post about

It now searches (and does image search too!) in:

• the current 'One Ring General Discussion' forum, boosted so results from here appear at the top of most searches
• the archive of the old ClickDev discussion forum made by Garn
• other fan materials *
• Other Minds Magazine
• the Middle Earth Roleplaying wiki
• MERP.com
• the Tolkien Gateway
• the Encyclopedia of Arda

Hopefully enough to be getting on with... but Is there anywhere or anything else (in the public domain!) that you'd like to search?

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* n.b. the other fan materials currently only indexes James R. Brown's Mythic Battles and Rich H.'s compilation of Additional Rules and Guide to Trait Usage. More suggestions welcome.. I want to index the 'official' location of these (i.e. where the authors have hosted them) in case of any updates, but it's taking a while for Google to get round to indexing these PDFs so they appear in search results. Until this happens there are no results here. If this doesn't change, I'll fall back to a local copy like the archive of the old ClickDev forums.

[Glorelendil]

Oh this is really cool. Thank you!

[Rich H]

... Pretty damn incredible, this!

[Falenthal]

Thanks for the amazing work. Congratulations!

[Andrew]

Do you gain shadow for using it though?

[StuartJ]

Do you gain shadow for using it though?

Good question... I could certainly imagine some succumbing to the Lure of Secrets!

Hopefully to be answered as soon as Horse Lords of Rohan is released, where I gather we "venture into the depths of Fangorn Forest and into Isengard itself"!

[StuartJ]

am pleased to say the Palantir now:

• searches the new House Rules sub-forum, with results also appearing in the 'fan materials' filter.
• searches the PDFs for James R. Brown's Mythic Battle rules, Rich H's guides and compilation of additional rules. It seems Google won't index dropbox user content, so instead I've uploaded copies to an archive page for indexing.
• searches the Lord of the Rings Encyclopedia wiki
• does Google-style auto-completion suggestions as you type!

Suggestions for more content (sites or fan materials) to index welcome