GEN: What the Funk and Wagnalls is going on?

[Jeff Hastings <hastings@hps.k12.mi.us>]

Friends:

Where have Funk and Wagnalls gone?

I recently set a Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia/reference set search box my
library web site's QUICK REFERENCE page.  Upon testing it, it worked--though
rather sluggishly--for a couple of days, then went down.  It has been down
for several weeks now. Fact is all of Funk and Wagnall's sites have been
inaccessible on the web for weeks. I've tried reaching several of them
through a few different ISPs.  Nada.  It seems incomprehensible to me that a
company would have all of their sites down that long--unless they've folded.

I am about to remove the Funk and Wagnalls search box, unless anyone has
some information regarding their services that would give me cause to hope
that they'll soon be back up. Anybody heard anything?  The base address for
most Funk and Wagnalls stuff is http://www.funkandwagnalls.com

Thanks for any info you can provide!

Jeffrey Hastings
School Library Media Specialist
Highlander Way Middle School
Howell, Michigan

(517) 548-6293
hastings@hps.k12.mi.us

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