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New search features are now live
You may have noticed that we've just launched some changes to our search on bakersfield.com.
First, we're adding Yahoo! Web search to our search box for those folks who want to search the web from bakersfield.com. This feature is just one facet of a local sales/content/technology partnership we have with Yahoo.
We've added tabs to key sections like News, Jobs and Homes so you can narrow your searches to those categories directly from the search box.
We've also made some dramatic improvements to our local search results and presentation, and allow you get get much more granular in searching the many areas of bakersfield.com.
These improvements are the first in a series of changes we'll be making to our local search. We know there's much yet to be improved, but we did want to roll out these changes asap.
You may experiencing some caching issues as we roll the new search box across templates but a page refresh should solve most rendering issues.
As always, we'd love to get constructive feedback so we can continue to improve the search experience. 8 comments from 6 users
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posted by
Shwaine
on Jul 10, 2009 at 06:39 PM
Do these changes have anything to do with the font face changes on the Recent Blogs and Recent Comments pages? The blog titles are no longer in a larger point font on the Recent Blogs page and the font size in general seems smaller. Frankly, after having looked at these new fonts for about an hour, my eyes are starting to hurt. posted by
witterpitters
on Jul 11, 2009 at 09:24 AM
COMMENT: YYYUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK :-( posted by
Shwaine
on Jul 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM
I set my minimum font size to 12pt and that moderately improved the situation, but the font is STILL smaller than 12pt. Looking at the page source, the font size is set to 1.4em. This means it is using a relative font. The base font size must be tiny given how tiny the relative fonts are turning out to be. OR the new Yahoo search button is injecting a font-size style that is overriding the stylesheets set up for the blogs. We've already seen in the past how individual posts can "break" the blogs if they contain stylesheet commands. It wouldn't suprise me if the new Yahoo search button code is doing the same. And I have checked this on Firefox 2, IE 6 and even an old Mozilla browser on both Linux and Windows2000. All tested environments are displaying this itty-bitty font size for Recent Blogs and Recent Comments. posted by
sagefever
on Jul 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Give us back the old font! My eyes hurt and I already have enough wrinkles around my eyes~ all this squinting is not helping. posted by
NancyII
on Jul 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM
What Sage said. Read our type "NO NEW WRINKLES!" posted by
lmolen
on Jul 12, 2009 at 09:29 AM
Not sure what's up with those pages, but you're right, something is amiss. We have some font issues sitewide that we need to clean up, but we'll look into this particular issue on Monday. Thanks for the feedback, and the detail. posted by
vanityfair
on Jul 12, 2009 at 07:50 PM
Wow, what a difference, and not in a good way! The fonts are teeny tiny. posted by
lmolen
on Jul 13, 2009 at 07:49 AM
OK, should be back to normal on those pages now. Let us know if you see odd stuff on other pages. Thanks.
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