Search engine for titles of fan fictions

[pinkporca]

Title
Search engine for titles of fan fictions

Short, concise description of the idea
Enable a search by the titles of a fan fiction not by the account person's/community name

Full description of the ideaI read fan fictions and sometimes the updates do not come for months. By the time I read a chapter, and wait for the updated chapter, I have

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[pauamma]

Only way I c an think of offhand is if the author tags their fic entries. For comment fic, it doesn't work.

[pauamma]

*nod* That only works for subscribing at the time it's posted, not searching later.

[silverflight8]

I don't know how this could work, like grrliz mentioned. After all, fic is really just text - some people don't use headers, don't lj-cut, don't even mention it's fanfiction at all - how can a search engine do that? (as well, if you rely on people to mark their work as such - it then falls on the person to mark their fic, and not everyone will/knows about it, and so on.)

Re: updates. You can always subscribe to them, or friend them, so that their entries show up in your inbox.

[lady_angelina]

+1

Subscription notification options are quite a bit more limited for Plus accounts, like what the OP has, but Plus account holders can still track top-level posts, which should be good for the purposes of tracking most fanfics.

I also can't really add to what you and everyone else said. You all explained it better than I could.

[pauamma]

If the author is posting publicly and didn't spray their journal with search-engine-B-gone, something like http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Search+engine+for+titles+of+fan+fictions%22+site%3A.livejournal.com (using the fix title instead) might work.

[azurelunatic]

"fix title"? Are titles in the habit of changing rapidly enough that you'd need to spray them with title-fixative to find them again? ;-P

[pauamma]

Boooo! (OK, I walked into that one.)

[soph]

You could encourage the author to post their fic to Archive Of Our Own, if they don't already. It's specifically meant for things like this. :)

[lied_ohne_worte]

As others said, this isn't really feasible. The LJ site can neither recognise whether something is a fanfic nor what its title is. You would need an entirely new archiving system, which

1) is done far better by sites actually dedicated to fanfic, rather than a general blogging and social networking site like LJ,

2) wouldn't help you find existing fic, as people would need to repost their fics to make them searchable,

and 3) would mean that LJ were shifting the whole site focus towards making it a fic archive.