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Does anyone here use Google Groups for search?

Has anyone noticed the search for alt.food.wine on Google groups is screwed up? For the last couple months, if one is reading through GG and puts in a "search this group requests", only matches from previous few months show up. For instance, wanting to read my notes for a 1990 tasting at Tribeca Grill, a search for " 1990 Tribeca" (quotation marks not included in search ) brings no results. If however I add "alt.food.wine" to terms and search all groups, I get the AFW post. I'm glad the archives aren't lost, but this is a slight pain.

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DaleW
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Yeah, I've found the same. Consensus seems to be that Google has screwed the pooch wrt to its Groups search. You'll also notice that by default it searches websites, online forums and Google's own internal groups. Not good.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

On the basis of my own experience only, though, they don't seem to be close to complete in their present state. I've Googled for old posts of mine only to come up totally blank. One time, Google was unable to turn up a *single* post of mine to afw using the search feature. As I said, not good.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

That's started about a year ago, and is really sad to deal with. Luckyly putting the newsgroup name does the trick, as Dave sayd. It's no more the old "googlegroups" we used to know.

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ViLco

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