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February 07, 2008

Notes on search — Or, 'Your search for rae-dupree eureka in all fields returned 0 results.'

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Above, what the New York Times own website returned last Sunday when I looked for an article by Janet Rae-Dupree published in that day's paper.

I don't know what I was thinking, going to the Times site instead of Google and entering the search terms there.

Below,

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what came back from Google.

Note that the article I was looking for — with a link to it on the Times own website — apppears first.

The Times (and all the media companies) are like the crazy grandmother who never throws anything away — she still has everything, she just has no idea where it is or how to find it.

Unbelievable, that such ineptitude persists.

February 7, 2008 at 04:01 PM | Permalink


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It's true, I've never gotten useful results from the Times search either. It's more fun when it returns results because it's like a surrealist puzzle trying to figure out why it thought they were relevant.

Posted by: Carol | Feb 7, 2008 7:17:48 PM

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