Monday, 3/31/2014: #1.3 'No Sign of the Cross'

This: http://www.google.com/cse?cx=011625061877579591195%3Agihjchjd274&i e=UTF-8&q=%22Ellery+Queen%22&sa=Search&siteurl=www.google. com%2Fcse%2Fhome%3Fcx%3D011625061877579591195%3Agihjchjd274&ref=&a mp;ss=7724j6635420j33#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=%22Ellery%20Queen%22%20TV%20 Script

might seem like drinking from a firehose, but it searches for a Google engine with the search terms, ["Ellery Queen" tv script] as it's a CSE (Custom Search Engine) which you can build by creating such a beast, then add links you'd like to be searched through. You may also tell it to search the rest of the world as well, but also that your results come first.

I created this one so I could hunt for scripts of TV shows I want to write a script, or something similar and make a use of the elements.

This particular one (I've got several of them) searches sites which it believes to have TV scripts. What it also does, via parameters I've designed, is search web pages which point to it or it points to, as well as add successful links to the database. It's an older version of Google's system, so it might have some rather behaviors.

There are some scripts listed there and you can feel free to play with it https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011625061877579591195:gihjchjd274 specifying parameters the same way you do with regular Google.

I haven't touched it in almost 5 years, but I seem to recall it's got 600+ web sites in its inventory and should continue to build on its own as it's used.

I hadn't used it until I saw someone in the TV Writer community was hand-crafting a list of shows and where their scripts are. I wish them well, as it's been rather interesting to watch it be built, but I'd rather run it through a search engine and to be able to get updates dynamically on the offchance someone didn't know about it.

"When you're good at something, never do it for free."