At Cover Browser I"m making use of the Google page count to determine the highlights of a particular comic series. For instance, this approach returns the following comic as the most popular single issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, which started in the 1960s and has over 500 issues out by now:
Comic buffs will know what"s so special Amazing Spider-Man #129: it has the first appearance of the Punisher character which became very popular. But how can this be determined automatically, and not just for Spider-Man, but other comic book series as well (like X-Men, Batman, or Hulk)?
The algorithm behind this is quite straightforward. First, you can use the Google SOAP API to return the page count for the following quer ...
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