Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Miniature Wargaming Search Engine
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It’s a hobby first! The Miniature Wargaming Dot Com Seach Engine!
Through the magic of Google, I’ve created the first miniature wargaming specific search engine. It works just like a regular search engine—in fact, it runs on Google—but it returns results only from the 3,214 websites that I have identified as being of interest to miniature wargamers.
The 3,214 sites include miniature wargaming specific sites, as well as peripheral sites relating to things such as tabletop board gaming or model railroading (for the terain and modeling tips). RPG, computer and console games, CCG, and Chess sites are not in the mix.
The advantage of this is huge. If you type World War II into the regular Google search, you won’t find the first miniatures related site until page 26 or so. In between, you’ll find wikipedia entries, computer games, government sites, school kids’ projects and the like.
However, if you search on World War II in the Miniature Wargaming dot Com Search Engine, you instantly get Google’s top miniatures related results.
It’s not perfect, of course. It only returns those 3,214 sites whose URLS I have typed into the system. No miniatures related site was deliberately excluded, but I obviously can’t think of them all. And Google still returns the results based on its own inscrutable internal logic. I can’t tell Google to emphasize particular sites.
But there also is the possibility of improvement. I can still add URLs to the system as people suggest them. To find out if your site—or your favorite site—is in the Miniature Wargaming Search Engine, type the URL into the search box. If the site shows up, then it’s been indexed by the search engine. If not, drop me a line through the comments section below or the contact form and I’ll consider it for inclusion.
If your site is not there, that also probably means that it hasn’t been included in the Miniature Wargaming Directory, so please also take the time to visit there and also register your site. I’d like to create the most comprehensive list of hobby sites on the internet.
So give it a try. It’s still a work in progress, so not everything will be perfect, but it’s shaping up to be a useful tool
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