The man ain’t got no culture
Posted by erweinstein on September 8, 2008
And by “the man”, I mean search engines.
Earlier today, I was searching the online archives of The Economist (the British newsweekly) to see if they printed an obituary for Welsh poet Ronald Stuart Thomas, who died a few months before I began reading that publication. The Economist now allows users to search the archives either via Google Custom Search or via their own internal search. Using Google for “Ronald Stuart Thomas” only returns a dozen or so unrelated results (or zero, searching for exact wording). Much to my surprise, using their internal search gives me either zero or one result, but also this:
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No further comments, except that it turns out they did not run an obituary for R.S. Thomas in The Economist.
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