O/T: Will Google Groups ever fix its search function?

On May 10, 1:52*pm, dlzc wrote:
Dear Robert Clark:

On May 10, 10:08*am, 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.

It works fine from their "Advanced Search" dialog screen.http://groups.google.com/groups/adva...rch=groups.goo...

It is the asymmetric search interfaces, and search performance /
behavior, that is maddening.

David A. Smith


I haven't found that to be so. For instance I searched using the
Advanced Search for the word "bimese" restricting the search to this
year and got no results. I however I did send a post to
sci.space.policy discussing this idea on May 4th:

Newsgroups: sci.space.policy, sci.astro, sci.physics,
sci.space.history
From: Robert Clark
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:49:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: A kerosene-fueled X-33 as a single stage to orbit vehicle
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...aaf61151?hl=en


Bob Clark