What's new at The Canadian Encyclopedia?
Maybe it was a mistake to dispose of all my hard copy editions I recently got a message urging me to "check out the Canadian Encyclopedia 's new look." Well, I did, but I'm not in love with the new look. The Encyclopedia 's home screen used to feature, front and centre, a very large Search box. The concept resembled that of the internet's dominant site, Google, which long has featured an almost wordless screen (okay, plus the Google doodle) with a large, dominating "Search" box at centre. I have used the Canadian Encyclopedia -- with the similar Search feature it used to have, regularly. I find the CE can often enough take a reader to Canadian materials not readily available elsewhere. Now the Encyclopedia 's "Search" option has been reduced to a small-print item in an upper corner of the home screen. Most of the screen is now given over to newsy stories about topics the editors think you should read about. No doubt some consultant ...