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New Detroit News Site - WTF URLs?

Oct 17, 08:48 AM

My friend Ed sent me a link to the newly re-launched Detroit News website, and maybe I'm just grumpy today but the first thing I noticed was the idiotic URL of the mainpage:

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

How is it possible in this so-called age of Web 2.0 that a major metropolitan area's newspaper does a total site overhaul and neglects to mind the form of their URLs? Sigh...

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