Like the rest of us, Cohen quickly developed a survival plan to navigate the multitude of channels available online. Search engines were useless in finding the special Desert Fox websites that emerged and indexers such as Total News could not keep up with the pace of a real time war, delivering stale content. Cohen employed a set of well traveled bookmarks, returning again and again to sites that delivered the goods. Cohen is particularly critical of the way the U.S. military made use of the net. There is an overall impression that the entire exercise is somewhat grudging.
Internal navigation continues to be a challenge on the Internet.
I don't know how many times one of the major media websites cleverly camouflaged what would have been a useful map or application had one been able to find it. Live video and audio links are increasingly commonplace among on network sites, and were particularly interesting during Desert Fox. Fox News and the BBC had live video feeds from Baghdad. For those in the fast lane, the RealGuide Iraq site provided links to the major multimedia windows. However professional CNN is, it exposes the American foreign policy and security establishment to an extent that borders on monopolizing truth.