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From: Androcles on 11 May 2010 11:58

"dlzc" <dlzc1(a)cox.net> wrote in message
news:b520b335-500f-4521-8bc9-43b7f4af2c68(a)31g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
Hello Androcles:

On May 11, 7:00 am, "Androcles" <Headmas...(a)Hogwarts.physics_z> wrote:
> On May 11, 9:21 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:> Robert Clark wrote:
> > > On May 11, 3:11 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk>
> > > 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
===============================================
In my opinion (which I rarely give and of course I could be wrong)
the problem is as simple as one poor programmer in Google's employ.
I speak from experience, I had occasion (circa 1987-88) to strip out
anything one particular individual had coded in the product I was
upgrading from a single processor system to a dual processor
system. I didn't have to fire him, he'd already left before I'd taken
over as project manager, but I would have done had he not seen
the light at the end of the tunnel was a train coming straight at him
and got out.
Google's management style is liberal and that can be good for
dedicated employees, but unfortunately it only takes one rotten apple
to spoil the barrel by taking advantage of it. I seriously doubt Google's
upper management are even aware of the drop in quality, it is masked
by the increase in quantity. I have found that Google Earth eventually
crashes when one steps from one streetview image to the next without
exiting the previous. That's not a problem for two or three tries, but
4 or 5 or 6 and it will happen. This may depend on memory
management on your computer and how many windows you have
open (tasks running). Same with the search function, sometimes it
does actually work as expected, other times not.

From: dlzc on 12 May 2010 21:10
Dear Tom Potter:

On May 12, 5:04 pm, "Tom Potter" <xprivatn...(a)mailinator.com> 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
From: d4rkn1ght on 13 May 2010 02:22
On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:04:15 -0400, Tom Potter
<xprivatnews(a)mailinator.com> 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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From: Phil Carmody on 15 May 2010 12:15
d4rkn1ght <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> writes:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:04:15 -0400, Tom Potter
> <xprivatnews(a)mailinator.com> 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
--
I find the easiest thing to do is to k/f myself and just troll away
-- David Melville on r.a.s.f1
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