Robert Clark wrote:
The take over by Google of the Usenet archive was first seen as a
godsend. However, its horrendous search function on past and current
Usenet posts has lead many Usenet readers to wish Google would just
give up the job to someone who actually wants to do it.
Google claims they are working to improve the search function:

I agree on this. Google is such a great search engine for web
pages, I can't understand how they can be so poor for usenet.


Alain Fournier