Search Engines? Ptooey!


We try to avoid fishing on the Internet for anything larger than an odd fact or two. While staff loves railroad engines, we can't stand search engines: how is it that an inquiry about "railroad locomotives" results in, amongst the links to 404 errors, listings for porn sites? This is particularly disturbing to us not because most porn sites require payment up-front, but rather because it offends our sense of order.
Wx4 staff, you see, is a bunch of old fogies who used to shelve books
in a college library in the days when most of these institutions
ordered the universe following the precepts of Melvil Dewey.
Certainly, we never ran across cards for S&M in the B&M
section of the subject card catalog, let alone contended
with Viagra ads stickied to every third card.

Humpf.