{"id":7793,"date":"2012-12-05T00:24:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T00:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:24:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T00:24:03","slug":"small-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/small-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smalldemons.com\/\">Small Demons<\/a> is a new search-engine \/ Pinterest mashup, allegedly for books and literature.  <\/p>\n<p>I tried it with the name of the British city &#8220;Stoke-on-Trent&#8221;. The top three in &#8220;People&#8221; did include musicians Lemmy and Robbie Williams (both born and raised in the city), but they can hardly be called literary giants. I would at least have expected to see Arnold Bennett up there at No.1.  But he&#8217;s nowhere to be found.  <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Books&#8221; tab of the results was even worse, with <em>nothing<\/em> relevant in the first page of results.  No Arnold Bennett, Charles Tomlinson, Arthur Berry, Sabine Baring-Gould, A.N. Wilson, Jonathan Taylor, Stephen Foster, or even H.G. Wells (for his macabre story &#8220;The Cone&#8221; set amid the Stoke iron furnaces). <\/p>\n<p>Then I tried the &#8220;Places&#8221; tab which gave me&#8230; no results at all.  <\/p>\n<p>Puzzled, I tried with another term, &#8220;Charing Cross&#8221; which is a famous place in London.  I would have expected to see the classic book <em>84, Charing Cross Road<\/em> high in the results.  But&#8230; nothing.  <\/p>\n<p>Small Demons looks very pretty, and is apparently backed by most major publishers with a huge database, but it doesn&#8217;t seem at all useful for researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Demons is a new search-engine \/ Pinterest mashup, allegedly for books and literature. I tried it with the name &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/small-demons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}