Now would you please get rod of those really annoying popup windows!

Lazarus,

I had the same issue with those popup and flyout adds. Get Firefox 3.0 (free) and install the free add on called Ad Block Plus. Good buy ads.

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Right on Lazarus… What a stupid way to advertise… By angering your clientele…

Please get rid of those annoying pop-ups!

Now how about updating the news pages? I see the same stories weeks on end. This site is a second rate newspaper web site - at best.

I am not a speed reader, slow it down a little. I dont like your new format, I liked the first one better, but I am wasting my typing skills telling you, marie

I appreciate that the search is faster, however is there a way to sort the results by date, with the most recent stories displayed first?

This search is more useless for my purposes that the previous slow search feature. I can find no way to put the results in date order. Before a typical search would return 40 - 80 hits. This morning I got 1421 with no way to wade through all of that. When I came here doing a search it was for articles all this other “junk” is of no interest to me. The only advantage I can see to your new feature is that it is fast but totally unuseable for my purposes.

As slow and kludgy as it was, I have to say I like the old search feature better. It was the lesser of two evils. The “sort by date” feature was essential to my needs and it appears to be gone now. I end up with hundreds of irrelevent returns and now way to sort them. Granted, it is faster. Unfortunately the site search has gone from kludgy but usable to less kludgy but useless.

Although it’s been said, I just want to reiterate how frustrating it is that when running a search on the Web site, the results don’t appear in chronological order. Not only that, but when looking at the list of results, the dates don’t appear. So I get hundreds of results, and I have to click on each one to see if it was published today or five years ago? How annoying! My job requires that I run a search everyday, so I really hope that this will problem will be rectified soon. I would like my search results to appear in chronological order, and I would like to see the date of each article in my results, like it did with the old and better search engine.

Ok, the new search engine is faster. But did it ever occur to a NEWS site that finding the LATEST news articles FIRST might be a good idea????? And what’s with all these blog entries and features from last year coming up? I don’t know about others, but I’m looking for news stories when I come to a news site, and a big part of news is timeliness! Search by date would REALLY help, as well as the option to restrict searches to just articles. Given the choice of this search engine vs. the old I’m afraid I’d have to go with the old, for all its slowness. Sorry.

Friends:

Thank you for your feedback. I understand exactly what you’re saying about the inability to sort the results by chronological order. It is possible, too, that there are some results you cannot find because we are at the mercy of how often Yahoo indexes our pages.

I will share this feedback with our team here and we’ll continue to look for ways to enhance the search. Believe me, we all know that it needs improvement. This was an effort to try it.

Thank you for working with us on it and giving us the feedback.

KMOLTV makes a serious national mistake but refuses to say MEA CULPA. Bad television station! VERY BAD. People should be fired. Here’s the story.

http://radiomankc.blogspot.com/2008/09/tv-politicians-and-microsoft-never.html

You could really improve your classified search by including the date the ad was added and include that as a search field. I look daily for an auto and that would be a great improvement.

i have not used your search engine so indeed it may be improved. i am sorry to say, however, that your home page is among the most annoying that i visit on the internet for two reason. 1. the constantly popping up advertisements while i am trying to read and article is really too much. 2. the constantly changing lead story at the top your homepage is truly annoying. i think your readers are capable of selectiing the story they wish to pursue in the order they wish to pursue them without the story constantly changing on the fly. i often peruse the PD website while awaitig delivery of my paper. while looking over a lead story to decide whether i want to continue - zap - its gone. very annoying.

This is only the first in a long list of needed improvements to this supposedly “upgraded” stltoday.com. Here’s a few.

- Speed up the load times. Waiting for the lame slide show to load is so annoying, and after finally loading, it switches to the next topic before I even have a chance to click on anything.

- Un-clutter the home page. Seriously, the site is so cluttered and disorganized it’s difficult to navigate. Gray font on a white background is also difficult to read.

- The image slide shows don’t work well. Why does the slide show have to completely reload the entire web page when switching to the next photo? I felt like my computer was possessed while the slide show was going through the images. How annoying!

- Fire whoever designed this site and redo it.