Technics: Web: Search engines fail, too bloated to give yesterday's news no matter how clear the search parameters you supply

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I got an assignment from Uncle Owlb. He wanted me to find an article on the web from yesterday, Apr25,2k6. He showed me what was annoying him, as he had the whole article's text sitting there onscreen, r+t before his eyes. It was an article by Anne D'Innocenzio, a business reporter for Associated Press. Unc wanted to attribute the article to the author and live-link to it. But, where he had found the item, it proved impossible to live-link to it, because it was locked-in on a page of another website without the article's AP URL.

The offending lock-in was found on Business Reform magazine online, aka ChristianBusiness.net.

refWrite's TechNotes, by Owlie Scowlie

As far as Unc was concerned, and I agree with him on this, this locking-in of someone else's article, so that a blogger or other user can't give the proper URL to one's readers, just as article's URL was originally put out on the web: this practice is a Bad Business Practice, a sub-Christian practice to further a self-styled Christian org's own agenda and violate an online consumer's r+t to give an honest attribution of the source and author at a proper URL. In short, a self-serving form of business dishonesty to lock a reader onto the page in question, instead of providing the link by which to navigate out to the original source. I had thawt this kind of BBP was illegal, and if it ain't, I say it awt to be. I don't see any God-fearing humility here in locking-in an author's work.

Here's the URL at the top of Business Reform / Christian Business's page: [ http://www.businessreform.com/ext_link_w_frames.php?url=
http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2Farticle%2F20060425%2FD8H72OQO0.html ]. Even that gargantuan URL is part of the obfuscation, but you can see tyhe traces of the original URL locked-in by the BR/CB take-over frame.

First, the top of Christian Business page is a blank, no page title appears on your browser's topmost line, only a hyphen; it appears the same way when you save a BR/CB URL for an article that isn't even theirs to lock-up. They invade your URL files with their perfidy. You can write in a title of the article you want to save, but anonymity, secrecy, deception, and removing the name of the author and the orignal publisher is the name of the Christian Business's game in using others' news reports.

Then, Business Reform (CB's other name, remember) gives you its own super-imposed frame in which it promotes its own pious articles and commodities that it sells to unperceptive readers who have little knowledge or care that the page is an article rip-off of another publisher (in this case Associated Press via MyWay) and a real professional newswriter - namely, in this case, Anne D'Innocenzio.

Well, I then set out on a search for the author's original article elsewhere -- that is, on the website ripped-off by Christian bad business practioners who will not supply the proper URL for proper attribution. My search beyond was a nite-mare. I went to MyWay, I googled and got all sorts of garbage but not the article for which I had the publisher's name, the author's name, the full and correct article title, and the publication date - yesterday! Then I tried Yahoo! News's search engine, then Ask.com, which sent me to FindArticle.com, then LookSmart. One wanted to have me install Mamma.com software in my computer so I could search my own hardrive, all tried to sell something with all those nonsense ads that merely obstructed the page, none could give me the page with its URL. There's someting massively wrong here with search engines on the Internet, and I guess I should be grateful to ChristianBusiness.net for their selecting D'Innocenzio's article on consumer confidence in the economy r+t now - even tho they didn't have the Christian decency to supply the URL so I could navigate out, so Unc could give credit where credit is due.

But that's not the end of it. Besides MyWay which had already disappeared the article from the list of stories they're featuring today, I googled up Associated Press's frontpage, and among all the bloat of their geegaws and doodads, the very small list of current articles they offered did not include yesterday's news, certainly not Anne D'Innocenzio's "Consumer confidence highest in 4 years." But, hey, I just remembered there used to be an AP article-list site out of Tampa, Florida, maybe a webpage maintained by a newspaper there. Better go take a look ..... - Owlie Scowlie

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