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

Hello Androcles:

On May 11, 7:00*am, "Androcles" wrote:
On May 11, 9:21 am, Martin Brown
wrote: Robert Clark wrote:
On May 11, 3:11 am, Martin Brown
wrote:
...
I have not seen it fail on modern posts by keyword at all.
I blame user error.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Do the search yourself:

link broken by Google.Groups

I get

link broken by Google.Groups

and that fails. Looks to me like programmer error,
truncation of URL. Google have a bad apple in
the barrel that needs firing before he/she does
some serious damage.

Maybe they don't want to spend any money on a channel that earns them
"no" income? So this might be the "last position before the door", or
perhaps the "first position to see how you do"?

David A. Smith

Dear Tom Potter:

On May 12, 5:04*pm, "Tom Potter" wrote:
....
There was NO problem before
Google bought DejaNews.

Well, there were few problems, even 1 year ago. At least with search.

I hated it when Yahoo trashed AltaVista, too.

David A. Smith

On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:04:15 -0400, Tom Potter
wrote:

There was NO problem before
Google bought DejaNews.
DejaNews called up EXACTLY what you expected.
The problem is that Google
"cooks the books" on searches
and feds you what they want you to see,
rather than what you want to see.

[...]

I can't believe that after all these years, I still really miss DejaNews.
Google stopped carrying for USENET a long time ago. Now they want you to
use their so call stupid Google Groups. :|


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d4rkn1ght writes:
On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:04:15 -0400, Tom Potter
wrote:

There was NO problem before
Google bought DejaNews.
DejaNews called up EXACTLY what you expected.
The problem is that Google
"cooks the books" on searches
and feds you what they want you to see,
rather than what you want to see.

[...]

I can't believe that after all these years, I still really miss
DejaNews. Google stopped carrying for USENET a long time ago. Now they
want you to use their so call stupid Google Groups. :|

Don't mince words, just come right out and say "google groups sucks".

Then, if you want to feel justified in that, search for that phrase,
and notice that out of the probably thousands of times that's been
uttered, it will only find a few percent of them.

Phil
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