| Re: Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? [message #67769] |
Wed, 02 September 2009 13:32 |
pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007
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On Sep 2, 4:13 pm, "R.G. Stockwell" <noemai...@please.com> wrote:
> "Ed Hyer" <ejh...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:e16b7674-f986-403b-bfc9-f6110c095c10@f20g2000prn.google groups.com...
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>> This was discussed in a thread a few weeks back, but (haha) I can't
>> find it.
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>> Google Groups, which I have been using to browse this group for years,
>> has recently changed their search options to return only recent
>> results. This makes the search basically useless for this group. There
>> is an "advanced search" which allows you to search archives, but it's
>> complicated and I am lazy. I mean, it's not clickable straight from
>> the groups page, it requires you to type in the name of the group, and
>> requires 5-6 extra clicks besides. Very un-Google-like.
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>> What other tools do people use to search this archive?
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> great question. I searched for a good search engine,
using google? did you expect to actually *find* anything useful?
:) :)
Ciao,
Paolo
> and could not
> find anything. I did find several that did binary group searches only.
> (almost like an old fashion bit-torrent). Do not search these if you
> are at work, lol.
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> if i find something, i'll post it here.
>
> cheers,
> bob
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