Posted
5:56 PM
by Gene
And further on the subject of snobs, we see
Yahoo! has launched a search function in beta for the Wall Street Journalses of this world. We understand why the likes of
Consumer Reports and
The New England Journal of Medicine want to stay on the French Riviera of the Web, but too often that desire rests in a kind of spite, and it's marginalized nearly all of them. What is more, however well-intended, having a separate search engine is sure to be a nuisance, as it means having to shuffle back and forth between indexes. There is a place for paid content on the Web, but the wide avenue of news is not it.