On Aug 4, 1:23*pm, Mark Lipton > wrote:
> DaleW wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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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> alt.food.wine FAQ: *http://winefaq.cwdjr.net

It's a slight pain to have to add the alt.food.wine and do full groups
search, but at least the archives are still there.