New Amazon Innovations: I 🖤 Searching

While checking a new magazine import for Mrs. Kwakk, I happened upon this:

*gasp*

It’s a book illustrated by Rick Geary, from 1992, that I don’t have! It’s called Cyberantics!

So I went to Amazon:

Yes, of course it just returns books that match “cybernetics”, because that’s a slightly more popular term. That’s pretty common these days.

But the innovation here is that when I go to the search box to type in “geary” after “cyberantics”, it changes the contents of the search box to “cybernetics”, too? After it’s reloaded the page! While I’m typing!

Amazon innovates again!

So you have to type “cyberantics geary” the first time around to find the book:

Comics Magazine Carousel

When I visit web sites, I often look for a date somewhere. That is, I want to know whether I’m looking at something that’s been dead for years, or that’s being actively maintained.

So I was reminded me that I hadn’t added that at all to kwakk.info, the site for comics research. So I was going to add one of those boring “last updated on” bla bla, but then I thought it might be more fun with one of those carousel things?

Now added.

And while I was futzing around with this yet again (even though I swore on everything that is unholy that I was going to take a break!), I also did a new audit. And:

Before: Look at all those missing issues!

After: Look at a bit fewer missing issues!

I wrote up some scripts to do semi-automatic searches for missing issues at various arr arr sites, which reminded me that I didn’t have a mechanism for keeping track of the “double issue” phenomenon. So that’s also taken care of:

#9-10 and #11-12 are really single issues, but that don’t bother the database no mo.

OK! Now I’m done! No more kwakking!