Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>
>> Hiya folks,
>>
>> I was trying to google for the posts (and recipe) about Kay's
>> margarita's today. In the past, I have been able to pull it up
>> easily.
>>
>> However it seems google is only looking back about a year now. Is
>> this something new? When I google for Kay Hartman's posts, I get no
>> responses at all. Nada.
>>
>> Can some of the rest of you try to google for older recipes, etc? This
>> is very frustrating.
>
> Google Groups search function has been wierd 'n wonky for several weeks
> now...ever since the several day outage that happened back then.

In another group, someone a few days ago mentioned not being able to
find something from that group. He'd done an absolutely simple
one-keyword search. When I saw his post, I tried. It was the first hit
I got; it was from 2004.

A couple days ago it found no posts from me. The next day it showed
7,000. <clickety> If I make that a phrase search (by enclosing the
string in quotation marks: "Blinky the Shark") it shows about 92,000.
Still, the same search (words, not phrase) went from 0 to 7,000 in one
day.

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