How Boston.com got search right
November 30, 2009 at 11:02 am
A fascinating post by Mac Slocum at the Nieman Journalism Lab. (Via Universal Hub.)
Tags: Boston.com, search
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So they dumped $100K into a failed R+D project, but it’s okay because now they have a CMS database? Could have done that for free with Wordpress.
And it’s not like the search project created some kind of sophisticated algorithm to populate their back sections. I’m sure there’s still someone manually filing stories where they need to go.
Jim, if you think Wordpress could do this kind of stuff I have swamp land in Florida you might be interested in …