November 10, 2006

The Strengths & Weaknesses of the Internet

I thought I'd shop amazon.com for cereal bowls for my wife. We're missing a couple of what was once a complete set. I searched for "bowls" and discovered a wide variety of styles and patterns. I vaguely remembered something....what was it...something like "Falzgraph".

So I typed in "falzgraph" and came up empty. But never fear, I googled falzgraph and it suggested an alternate spelling of pfaltzgraf, which got me closer. It asked: "Did you mean 'Pfaltzgraff'? I cut & pasted that into Amazon and got a variety of styles and patterns, none that look like ours.

Ah well, the 'net can't do everything for you.

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