August
24, 2017
Newspaper website search bars are weird. You can
look for an item you swear you’ve seen recently, and type it into their search
spot, and come up with nothing.
Example: I saw an adorable picture of a baby rhino
in the paper. When I tried to find it in the online edition, I typed in “rhino,”
“baby rhino” “newborn rhino at zoo” and came up with nothing.
Today I tried to find the article they’d advertised about
ways to use tomatoes. I typed in “Tomato recipes”. Got a recipe for a casserole
and a review of some ready-to-cook meals.
I typed in “tomatoes.” Same thing. Got out of the paper’s website and
typed “tomato recipes” in the Google search bar. And the first item that came
up was (drumroll, please)…The Post-Dispatch article on 20 ways to use
tomatoes, dated 2 days ago.
The Boise paper used to drive me crazy for the same
reason. What IS it about newspapers and their search functions?
From now on I’ll skip the paper’s search function
and go straight to Google.
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