http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2009/05/12/newspaper-sites-suffer-from-horrendous-search-functionality/ A blog about recruitment advertising, media, publishing, HR, work, & technology, among other things Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:42:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2009/05/12/newspaper-sites-suffer-from-horrendous-search-functionality/comment-page-1/#comment-31198 StevenRothberg Wed, 13 May 2009 17:51:25 +0000 http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/?p=1121#comment-31198 That the search engines built and maintained by the newspapers aren't as good as the search engine build and maintained by Google isn't much of a surprise. What is a surprise to me is that the newspapers either don't recognize the problem or don't care enough about it to do anything about it. One easy and fairly inexpensive solution is for them to throw in the towel on their homegrown technology and instead use a version of Google's search engine that would only include in its search results pages from the newspaper. We do that with our articles, blogs, and other such content. It works great. That the search engines built and maintained by the newspapers aren't as good as the search engine build and maintained by Google isn't much of a surprise. What is a surprise to me is that the newspapers either don't recognize the problem or don't care enough about it to do anything about it. One easy and fairly inexpensive solution is for them to throw in the towel on their homegrown technology and instead use a version of Google's search engine that would only include in its search results pages from the newspaper. We do that with our articles, blogs, and other such content. It works great.

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