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The primary navigation path. A typeahead disambiguates with a thumbnail and a short description before the reader commits, and an exact title goes straight to the article rather than to a results page.
Opened the main page.
The entry point puts a search field in the header and the day's editorial selections below it. Nothing is personalised and nothing is gated — the fastest route to any of six million articles is to type its name.
Typed "pointillism" into the search field.
A typeahead request returns candidate articles with a thumbnail and a one-line description, so the reader disambiguates before committing to a page. The description is what does the work here — several candidates often share a name.
Pressed Enter to accept the top suggestion.
Submitting an exact title navigates directly rather than to a results page. That one decision is why search here feels like addressing a thing instead of querying a database.
