MouSearch[1] is a Google Co-op customized search engine meant to aid research on Wikipedia articles, especially those concerned with Wikipedia:WikiProject Pornography.
One day, User:AnonEMouse got tired of using Google to search for information to write articles on pornographic performers, and having to wade through results which were 90% image galleries and advertisements for pornographic videos. So MouSearch (Mouse Search) was created, a specialization of the Google search engine which only searches certain sites and sub-areas of sites that tend to have more valuable text information and fewer image galleries and video advertisements.
Some specific examples:
- avn.com has articles and reviews. MouSearch only searches avn.com/articles and avn.com?Primary_Navigation=Articles where the articles are
- pornstar.dvdempire.com is mostly a site to sell DVDs, but has a few actual interviews. MouSearch only searches pornstar.dvdempire.com/*tab=19* and pornstar.dvdempire.com/*tab=12* where the interviews and biographies are.
Besides pornography specific sites, MouSearch also searches the mainstream classical reliable sources that occasionally do write some articles on pornography, such as the New York Times, Salon.com, Village Voice, and so forth. The main point is to exclude the fan sites, the solely DVD sale sites, and the Wikipedia mirrors, that otherwise make up most of the hits on a Google search for a pornographic performer.
It's not perfect, for some reason a few results that should, by all logic, show up, don't, so once one useful result from a website X.com shows up, it is sometimes useful to repeat the search on the main Google search engine with a "site:X.com", or better yet the local search for a specific site if there is one. It also excludes the official sites for specific performers, simply because there are too many of them, and each one of them only covers one performer.
Any sites that haven't been added yet, but seem to have useful information, should be added. Please contact AnonEMouse (squeak) if there are sites that seem to have useful information in a Google search but not in a MouSearch search, include the actual search.