[Ads-l] New York Times search enshittification

[Ken Hirsch]

Have others noticed the NYT search function getting much worse?

Search on relevance seems broken now. A search on "McGeorge Bundy", for
example, returns two relevant results, followed by dozens of World Cup
articles.

https://www.nytimes.com/search/?srchst=p&query=%22McGeorge+Bundy%22&bylquery=&hdlquery=#top

WTF? Is this some kind of clickbait thing? I am a paid subscriber, by the
way.

The date picker appears to have purposely downgraded so that you have to
click through months one at a time until you get to the right one. Hundreds
of clicks if you're searching anything old. You can manually edit the URL
after doing a search though. For now.

I can think of no reason why the date picker was so badly broken.

I noticed this a few weeks ago and tried to report it to the NYT last week,
but there is apparently no customer service department any more. It's just
robots.

Ken Hirsch

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