Steve Wertz > wrote in
:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:01:34 -0700, Jed wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:26:57 GMT, Steve Wertz
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Looks like they've changed the interface yet again. Groups
>>>is not on the "More" tab now either. "More" gives you a
>>>whole page of services, of which Groups is *way* down on the
>>>list.
>>>
>>>This is good for the most part as it will reduce newbies
>>>coming across it and spamming. But I did like to be able to
>>>search regular Google, and if I didn't like the results, be
>>>able to search Usenet with just one more click.
>>
>> Why not bookmark the Google group search page? Or, keep it in
>> a saved tab if you use Firefox or the new IE, not that there
>> is as much reason to do so as there used to be.
>
> That doesn't solve my problem of being able to use the same
> search term for both web and Usenet searches. Otherwise I
> just type "deja.com" to get to groups. I don't use bookmarks
> for URL's that are short and easy to remember.
>
> After a little experimenting, I found out I can replace
> "search" in the resulting web-search url with "groups", and
> that gives me the same functionality as pressing the former
> "Groups" tab.


Why not use 'usenet' and a good news reader?
Does SBC have news groups?


> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...oo&btnG=Search
> Becomes
> http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&l...oo&btnG=Search
> ^^^^^^
> -sw