Tuesday 6 July 2010

Rabbits NOT Leporidae

This search took me to one of those really boring/annoying websites
http://www.petwebsite.com/rabbits.asp which serve as umbrellas for lots of topics. Annoying because when you really want info quickly it adds another few clicks to the searching. Boring because there are so many links that it's confusing and tiring having to bother. On the good side, some of those links are useful - they go to rabbit welfare sites and places where you can get really solid info. On the not-so-good, lots of the links are to rabbits for sale. I don't think you should be able to sell animals over the 'net. So there. Lots of links to rabbit products for sale too.

It's well named: Pet Website. Does what it says on the tin. This kind of "shop" did not used to exist in the high street: the local pet shop sold pets, petfood and pet products. Occasionally put ads in the window. But the major stores now do do the things that the websites do. They have links with welfare groups. They advertise insurance company prodcuts and services. They sell second-hand pets. They have books and training days too. I wonder if it is because they have to compete with the web, or with each other?

Difficult to ascertain what search to use as the term 'rabbit' is repeated endlessly before you get to anything else. New rule then: a word will only appear once in each search - I obviously can't using Rabbit AND Rabbit. It looks like it's going to be the words "types" and "rabbits"

1 comment:

  1. Hi Bunny Girl,
    Why not try "rabbit" as the second term? Sites that don't feature "rabbit" but do feature "leporidae" might be interesting?
    That's Bunny Logic for you -hops about all over the place.

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