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The ASSTR Search Engine is a "work-in-progress" that has been in development since 1999, with the number of search options made available to readers increasing dramatically over the years. Today, the ASSTR search engine offers readers the ability to search for words or phrases within a story, with the ability to place restrictions on search results such a story title, author, story codes/keywords, summary, chapter, universe, point of view, size, and date posted.

In addition, search engine query terms can be negated, meaning readers can look for stories that do not contains given words, phrases, titles, authors, etc. The engine also supports AND and OR searches of SHS-based search terms.

The instructions below explain all the search engine options currently available and how to use them. As always, the ASSTR team is open to any comments and suggestions our visitors may have.

Searching for phrases within stories is made possible by using quotation marks (quotes). Phrase searching facilitates searching for story titles, authors whose names have multiple words, and small pieces of a story you may have read before and still remember. Phrase searching works across any line breaks in the story. Phrases can be combined with non-phrase search terms. For example, suppose you are trying to find a story with the phrase "...hot blonde was incredible..." and you remember her name was Katie. The following would be an appropriate search:

"hot blonde was incredible" Katie

The quotation marks around the phrase tell the search engine that the words within the quotes must appear next to each other in the order specified.

To find stories without certain words or phrases, use the minus sign. For example, suppose you enter a search query, but many of the results contain a story titled "Jenna's Adventures at Boot Camp" that you have already read. The following would be an appropriate search:

"boot camp" army -"Jenna's Adventures at Boot Camp"

The ASSTR search engine also permits restricting search results based on the point of view in which the story was written. Stories are usually written in either first, second, or third person, as follows:

First Person: "My alarm went off, waking me as I lay in the arms of the most beautiful woman with whom I had ever had the pleasure of spending a night..." In first person stories, the main character describes events as they are happening to him/her. Insight is only given into the mind of the main character, and the reader only knows what the main character knows.

Second Person: "As the alarm goes off, you slowly wake up in the arms of the most beautiful woman with whom you had ever had the pleasure of spending a night..." In second person stories, "you" the reader are the main character, where the story "interacts" with you.

Third Person: "As Joe slowly woke to the sound of the alarm clock going off, he took great comfort in realizing he was in the arms of the most beautiful woman with whom he had ever had the pleasure of spending a night..." In third person stories, the writer describes the story as an unseen observer. Insight into the minds of most or all the characters is usually given.

After completing a search, a list of search results will be displayed, assuming any results are available for the given query. The format of the search results is as follows:

The first line of a search result contains its number followed by the title of the story in green. If a chapter number is available, it will follow the title.

The second line of a search result displays the story's location at ASSTR (similar to an URL, but relative to ASSTR).

Starting at the third line, any available SHS headers, such as the story's author, story codes/keywords, and summary are listed.

After the SHS headers, the next line shows the size of the story and language abbreviation in brackets. The most popular language for stories at ASSTR is English, which is abbreviated as "en". After the size and language, the date the story was posted to ASSTR is listed.

Finally, if any search words (other than search parameters as discussed below) were specified, excerpts from the part(s) of the story containing the given search words are listed.

Standard Header System (SHS) Features

SHS is an ASSTR-sponsored open standard that permits persons distributing stories at ASSTR to supply the search engine with detailed information about a story, such as the author, title, and a brief summary. The ASSTR search engine allows users to enhance their search queries by searching for SHS-based information. In this way, readers can search for stories by author, story code/keyword, and title.

The advanced search engine makes it easy to search for stories based on SHS information. Clicking on a search field of interest (such as Keyword, Author, title, Summary, or Chapter) reveals a search box and information about that search field.

Opening a SHS search field shows the number of stories indexed by the search engine for which that search field is applicable. For example, clicking on the "Author (SHS)" search field reveals that 68.1% of all stories contain indexed author information. This means that any searches using the search term "author" will only search 68.1% of all the indexed stories.

For example, if a story is written by an author "Jacob Robinson", but the search engine was unable to identify Jacob as the author of his stories, then any author search for stories by Jacob would not appear in the search results. In cases like this, it is still possible to do a phrase search for Jacob Robinson in order to find all stories containing his name. The disadvantage to this method, of course, is that the search results would contain any story reviews, author/collector web pages, etc. that mention his name in addition to his stories.

Specifying search parameters manually

The Advanced Search Engine allows for simultaneous searching of words within the story, author name, title, keyword, etc. by filling out the different applicable parts of the search form. This is how most users will probably use the search engine. However, a more concise way of performing searches is available by supplying all search parameters in the main search query.

For example, a search for stories with the word dragon in the title but that do not have the name Crimson Dragon in the title and that contains the words teen, blonde, Roger, and the phrase "go fly a kite" somewhere in the story could be entered as follows:

title:dragon -title:"crimson dragon" teen blonde Roger "go fly a kite"

As shown in the example, searching for a story title is done by using the title: keyword. Searching for a phrase is done as normal: with quotation marks. Notice that there is no space between the colon and the search term when using keywords. That is, title:dragon is correct, but title: dragon is not.

A list of all keywords is as follows:

author, title, summary, universe, chapter, keyword, pov, maxsize, minsize

pov is the Point Of View (see above), and can be either pov:1, pov:2, or pov:3

maxsize and minsize are specified in kilobytes (KB), such as minsize:10 maxsize:100

AND and OR Searches

When specifying search parameters manually, the search engine supports advanced AND and OR queries. Such queries are entered by using parenthesis and repeating query keywords (such as "author:", "title:", and "keyword:"). For example, consider the following search query:
keyword:(pregnancy pregnant) keyword:teen

This query instructs the search engine to find stories that contain at least one of the keywords "pregnancy" or "pregnant" as well as the keyword "teen". Thus, stories that have keywords "teen pregnant" as well as stories that have keywords "teen pregnancy" would both match the query. However, a story that only had the keyword "teen" or only had the keyword "pregnant" or "pregnancy" would not.

As shown in the example, the use of parenthesis allows for an OR search of the keyword search field. By specifying the keyword search field twice, an AND search is performed in that the results must contain the keyword "teen" and must also contain the keyword pregnancy and/or pregnant.

Welcome to ASSTR's
Menu of Fine Erotic Literature

If you're a connoisseur of erotic literature, you've come to the right place. Below you'll find a menu to all the fine delectables just waiting to be enjoyed by you.

Here the authors of ASSTR spotlight their own works. Usually these works are still hot off the press at the time the spotlights are posted.

For older spotlights, visit the Spotlights Archive

Here ASSTR presents the newest authors at ASSTR as well as authors who have recently updated their web site or FTP directory.

Many of the authors at ASSTR have provided profiles of themselves so ASSTR's visitors can see what they're all about when trying to find a good story to read.

Note: This page is rather large and as such takes a little while to download over a conventional modem.

Here ASSTR presents random samples of the works by ASSTR authors. If you don't see something you like at first, check back later. This page is updated thrice per day.

Find out what's popular with everyone else! This list presents the one hundred most popular works of the past week.

If you're a frequent visitor and want to keep up on the latest additions, check out this list. Here you'll find the fiction newest to the site from the past seven days.

Feeling lucky? How about trying a random story. Just click the link above. There's no telling what you may get.

ASSTR is honored to be home to hundreds of authors of erotic literature, some of whom are arguably the best in their field. The diversity and quality you'll find here may keep you reading forever.

ASSTR is proud to host some of the most well known collections of erotic literature on the 'net. Browse through over twenty such collections - there's sure to be something to please even the most discriminating tastes.

Some authors and archivists don't wish to make a web site with their works and instead post them directly to the FTP archive. Here you'll find no pretty web pages decorated with pictures; FTP is just the stories.

ASSTR is the organization that oversees the operation of the Alt.Sex.Stories.Moderated newsgroup and maintains the newsgroup's official archive. Some excellent authors only post their works to ASSM, so don't miss out on this collection.

The ASS Hall of Fame recognizes those members of the community that are no longer active but gave great service during the time they were with us.

Sometimes authors will begin a work and then, for one reason or another, never finish it. The graveyard is a collection of such stories.

Maintained by Rui Jorge, this is a list of the top picks of various contributors to the list. Perhaps by exploring this list, you'll find a recommendation for a story you'll love too. If you have a list of favorite stories, Rui invites additions to the list.

ASSTR needs your help to survive! Find out the details on why we need your help, what our goals our, where to send donations, and more.

ASSTR accepts donations by VISA or Mastercard. It just takes a few minutes and will help out a great deal.

The ASSTR Search Engine is the most powerful and comprehensive engine offered at the ASSTR site. This engine searches the entirety of ASSTR and ASSM, permits phrase (consecutive word) searches, allows for searching just the ASSM archives, and more.

This engine only searches the subject lines of ASSM posts, thus making searches for works by title and author name fast and easy.

If you're in need of assistance, check out the FAQs section at ASSTR. Find answers to questions about story codes, the Usenet sex story newsgroups, are more.

This FAQ contains questions and answers directly related to ASSTR services, such as the web and FTP sites.

Geared toward writers, this area contains links to grammar rules, dictionaries, thesauruses, and more.

If you've read the FAQs and still can't find the answer to your question, you can head over to the help center to ask your question.

If you're new to ASSTR and are curious about our history, read the news archive to learn about past events.

Find out what ASSTR will and won't do with any personal information you give us.

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ASSTR Standard Header System FAQ
(last revised 2002-10-24)

This document is the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) guide for the ASSTR Standard Header System (SHS). SHS provides a quick and easy way for authors to add description information to their stories in a computer-readable format. This information, including the title, description, author's name, and story codes/keywords for the work, is then used by various ASSTR services. Examples include enhancements to the search engine and new files list that assist readers to more easily find stories they will enjoy, thus furthering ASSTR's purpose of bringing authors and readers together. See below for more information.

What is the purpose of the Standard Header System? / Why is it needed?

Over the years, erotic literature archive sites such as ASSTR have amassed a large number of works. For instance, ASSTR currently has almost 175,000 works available. As the number of works has grown, finding ways to make it easy for readers to find stories that interest them has become an increasingly difficult task.

The purpose of SHS is to create a system that makes it easier for readers to find stories they enjoy, and, as a corresponding benefit to authors, get more people reading their works. At the same time, if the system is going to work, authors need to use it. SHS was therefore designed to be very simple for authors to use.

I'm an author [who posts to ASSM/with an ASSTR account]. Is SHS mandatory for me to use?

Use of SHS is 100% voluntary. However, ASSTR highly encourages all authors of erotic literature to use it. As time goes on, the archive is only going to get larger. Assuming an author is posting his/her works because he wants people to read them, it only makes sense to take advantage of services that will help get people reading his/her stories - particularly if those services are free and easy to use. If use of SHS catches on, other archives may make use of the system as well, thus increasing the benefit of using it.

How does the Standard Header System make it easier to find stories?

One problem with computers is that no matter how fast they get, they still lack basic intelligence. Getting a computer to locate the title and author name inside a story, if that information is even present, is not an easy task. Trying to get a computer to match different chapters of a single story or extract story codes from a story is even more difficult.

SHS solves this problem of automated data extraction by having authors put the information at the top of their stories in a computer-readable format. In this way, a computer can easily get information about stories because it knows exactly where to look for it and the specific format in which the information is present.

Once a computer can automatically get information such as the story's author, title, a summary, and/or story codes from the work, it can make this information available to readers
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