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Welcome to ASSTR's search engine! This engine was researched and developed entirely by the ASSTR programming team, and in doing so we've created an engine that's customized just for ASSTR that offers the fastest, most comprehensive engine possible.
This engine searches the entire ASSTR site, including the archives at ASSTR (Alt.Sex.Stories.Moderated archive, MCStories.com, Nifty archive, etc). The engine was last reindexed on 2009-07-02 to ensure up to date results. We currently index 402199 works!
Because of the numerous search options available, the options are now tabbed. To view the tab for an option, simply click its name next to the arrow.
For instructions on using the search engine, click the Instructions label below.
Instructions
To use the search engine, simply type in the words you want to search for, separated by spaces. Like Google's search, you can optionally use plusses to designate words you require in the results. A word with no special flags is treated by default as having a plus in front of it. Use a minus sign to indicate words you don't want in your results.
The engine also supports the use of quotation marks to search for consecutive words (ie phrases). Searches using quotes may take a great deal of time, so please be patient.
For example, to find all stories containing the words "pizza", "lesbian", and "dog" just type in pizza lesbian dog and click search. If you want to find stories with the word tuna but not fish, query for tuna -fish. To find stories by author Martin Ryans but not the title "Sally meets Johnny", try searching for "Martin Ryans" -"Sally meets Johhny".
Advanced Instructions (opens in a new window)
Search query:
(the search engine will locate stories containing all the specified words)
Keyword/Story Code (SHS)
(searches 241214 stories, 59.9% of all indexed stories)
Note: To select multiple keywords, MS Windows users hold down the Control key (marked Ctrl on your keyboard); Mac users hold down the Command/Apple key.
Author (SHS)
(searches 283784 stories, 70.5% of all indexed stories)
Story author:
Title (SHS)
(searches 361867 stories, 89.9% of all indexed stories)
Title of story:
Summary (SHS)
(searches 23340 stories, 5.8% of all indexed stories)
Story summary:
Chapter (SHS)
(searches 9235 stories, 2.2% of all indexed stories)
Story chapter:
Universe (SHS)
(searches 4153 stories, 1.0% of all indexed stories)
Story universe:
ASSTR Author Account
Note:It is not possible to select specific multiple authors to include at the moment.
Note: To select multiple authors, MS Windows users hold down the Control key (marked Ctrl on your keyboard); Mac users hold down the Command/Apple key.