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.