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by Sheila
Lennon
'Bottom-up' journalism from the pros
May 31, 2002
• Today's weblog
Google's launched
an online catalog search:
This
makes online shopping too easy. It spits up catalogs I've never heard of. Fortunately,
I can't afford most of them.
Sites in the regular
Google search for sisal
rugs order -- I added the last word to eliminate cleaning and decorator
sites -- were much cheaper than what turned up in a catalog search for a sisal
rug for the porch. The difference might be the cost of paper, printing
and postage for all those 4-color glossy books.
A search for seagrass
carpet inexplicably turned up a page of hats, but a search for tuberose
(an incredibly fragrant bulb to grow on the porch, 3 to a 10-inch flowerpot)
showed me new plant sources and some cultivation advice.
This will be a
hit, I predict.
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