Washington Post ombudsman regrets the typos

The Washington Post's ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, has written a second column on an apparent increase in errors in the paper. His first piece along these lines, last summer, attributed the problem to the number of copy-editors the paper has dispensed with: more than 30 from a total of 75. This time, he blames the fact that the remaining copy-editors have been given more to worry about: specifically, search-engine optimisation and other web-related tasks. There is no suggestion, however, that the mistakes are being introduced to attract less literate Google searchers.