S Anand writes about programming, data and web tools, including a full-text search of every Calvin and Hobbes strip.
HN links it for the Calvin and Hobbes search and its dataset, and for his account of the takedown demands these search projects attract.
A bit off-topic, but it's been increasingly tough to view Calvin and Hobbes on the internet.
Gocomics seems to go after everyone who posts these comic strips on a regular basis.
The C&H sub-reddit stopped posting some time ago. [0]
The only C&H Search out there is not allowed to show the strips and instead redirects to Gocomics. [1]
Here's a blog post by S. Anand detailing some background on the takedown notice he received, although he doesn't mention who sent it. [2]
I feel saddened that the one comic strip that resisted commercialization has to have its fans face this.
But I suppose that's the nature of the web now.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/1m8j09a/the_post_i_hoped_to_avoid_the_end_of_ch_subreddit/
[1]: https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
[2]: https://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/
Out of curiosity, I looked up the original data source for the search and found this: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/ . I think he deserves as much credit as the guy who created the search engine.
TLDR: Some guy manually transcribed every single Calvin and Hobbes strip only to get a takedown notice and remove it.
Related:
These C&H search engine projects have long been a target of cease & desist / takedown orders. (Until they weren't as much, hence this one surviving)
Here's a story from the creator of another one by S. Anand:
The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown
https://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/
I searched for "Somehow, it's always right now until it's later." and it found nothing, I checked on http://www.s-anand.net/comic.calvin.jsz and it's "Somehone, it's always right now until it's later." – it's not very forgiving.
There used to be another search engine by S. Anand, but it was taken down because of copyright bullshit (http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html). Wonder what will happen with this one...
Well, the JQuery name is already taken. Also it seems that the JPath idea isn't too crazy that someone didn't already do it:
http://www.s-anand.net/blog/jpath-xpath-for-javascript/