off topic: google groups sucks?

[Aaron Watters]

Just a note. It seems that google groups is increasing the
sucks coefficient.

I search for things using "group search" for comp.lang.python
and I get no results even though I know there are results from
a few months or weeks ago.

What is the best alternative for this kind of trawling? gmane?

With all the smart people working at google how can they
**** up like this?

Inquiring minds want to know.

-- Aaron Watters

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Sisyphus got ripped.

 

[jkn]

Just a note.  It seems that google groups is increasing the
sucks coefficient.

I search for things using "group search" for comp.lang.python
and I get no results even though I know there are results from
a few months or weeks ago.

There seems to be a problem with Google Searching 'at the moment'. I
have seen it with other groups, but not noticed it to date on c.l.p.

http://groups.google.com/group/groupsknownissues/browse_thread/thread/d88d02f269a7d20d#

J^n

 

[Stefan Behnel]

There seems to be a problem with Google Searching 'at the moment'. I
have seen it with other groups, but not noticed it to date on c.l.p.

http://groups.google.com/group/groupsknownissues/browse_thread/thread/d88d02f269a7d20d#

I noticed a problem with Google in general this weekend, not even related
to mailing lists. I can't remember getting similarly bad results from a web
search for years. Even trivial queries that worked for months returned
completely unrelated pages and lacked the "obvious" target page in the
result set.

Stefan

 

[Aaron Watters]

Just a note.  It seems that google groups is increasing the
sucks coefficient.

I'm having better luck now using the advanced search option
with queries like

gadfly group:comp.lang.python

which become

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=gadfly+group:comp.lang.python

The "search this group" feature still needs fixing, however.

-- Aaron Watters

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if you lined up all economists end to end
they'd still point in different directions.
-- stolen from somewhere

 

[John Yeung]

I'm having better luck now using the advanced search option
with queries like

   gadfly group:comp.lang.python

The "search this group" feature still needs fixing, however.

Thanks, Aaron, for confirming that it's not just me! I've been
noticing spotty or missing results searching groups for a while now,
actually, to the point that I gave up trying. Can't remember exactly
when it started, but I do remember that it used to work pretty well
and then suddenly got significantly worse.

Also, thanks for the tip of trying advanced searches.

John

 

[Aaron Watters]

Thanks, Aaron, for confirming that it's not just me!

yea, unfortunately this kind of thing happens in monopolies
that have no viable competition anymore... Sometimes I begin
to suspect that I'm seeing the results that I should want
rather than the results I want.

(Lucene has this property
too -- you get the results <b>the algorithm</b> wants you to get,
rather than the results you want to get.)

-- Aaron Watters

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In communism the future is certain,
but the past is ever changing.