{"id":13706,"date":"2023-08-03T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2023-08-03T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:41:35","slug":"little-delvings-in-the-marsh-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/08\/03\/little-delvings-in-the-marsh-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Delvings in the Marsh (beta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cse.google.com\/cse?cx=e0863d0940be34f0f#gsc.tab=0\">Little Delvings in the Marsh<\/a>, my new search tool for Tolkien scholars. With the aid of Google it indexes over 100 sites and pages, all those I can think of, via a Google custom search-engine. No wikis or fan-fiction, no Reddit, and no merchandising piffle such as &#8216;Lego Frodo&#8217; etc. Very much in beta, but it will expand as I find or remember further sites.<\/p>\n<p>Note that a Google custom search tends to work best with more sophisticated searches. Trying it with just one or two simple keywords may give lacklustre results. A custom search is also not a great tool for discovering &#8220;What&#8217;s new?&#8221; (though you can &#8216;sort by date&#8217;). More like &#8220;What&#8217;s old?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/demomarsh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/demomarsh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"454\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13718\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hit-counts refer to the full Google Search. A custom engine can&#8217;t be bothered to re-calculate the hits for the sub-set of sites.<\/p>\n<p>If the dumb drop-down auto-suggest annoys (as it will), block it in your uBlock Origin custom filters list, thus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>cse.google.com##.gsc-completion-container<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And block the ads thus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>cse.google.com##.gsc-wrapper &gt; .gsc-adBlock<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Delvings in the Marsh, my new search tool for Tolkien scholars. With the aid of Google it indexes over 100 sites and pages, all those I can think of, via a Google custom search-engine. No wikis or fan-fiction, no Reddit, and no merchandising piffle such as &#8216;Lego Frodo&#8217; etc. Very much in beta, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}