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.

Christine

On Jul 31, 5:55 pm, 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.
>
Christine,

I googled on "hartman margarita" and it popped up right away. Try
again. If it doesn't work for you I'll copy and send.

David

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.

--
Best
Greg

"I am smarter than you think I am"
- Maryanne "Loafhead" Kehoe to me
in alt.gossip.celebrities

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:06:52 -0700, dtwright37
> wrote:

>On Jul 31, 5:55 pm, 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.
>>
>Christine,
>
>I googled on "hartman margarita" and it popped up right away. Try
>again. If it doesn't work for you I'll copy and send.
>
>David

Well, that is weird. If you go through google groups and the advanced
search, nothing comes up. If you just google for it, in the groups
seach, it comes up.
Usually I have gone through the advanced search feature to find
things. Something indeed must be wonky there.

Christine

"Christine Dabney" > wrote

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:06:52 -0700, dtwright37
> > wrote:
>
>>On Jul 31, 5:55 pm, 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.

>>I googled on "hartman margarita" and it popped up right away. Try
>>again. If it doesn't work for you I'll copy and send.

> Well, that is weird. If you go through google groups and the advanced
> search, nothing comes up. If you just google for it, in the groups
> seach, it comes up.
> Usually I have gone through the advanced search feature to find
> things. Something indeed must be wonky there.

Just the other day I had a hissy fit, couldn't find my recipe for chicken
catch.
I googled every configuration I could think of. Finally googled on water,
from
pre-2005, nothing. Well, surely I said water at *some* point in the last 10
years.

So then, sf pulled up my recipe no problem. It's definitely wacky.

nancy

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:26:39 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>
>"Christine Dabney" > wrote
>
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:06:52 -0700, dtwright37
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>On Jul 31, 5:55 pm, 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.
>
>>>I googled on "hartman margarita" and it popped up right away. Try
>>>again. If it doesn't work for you I'll copy and send.
>
>> Well, that is weird. If you go through google groups and the advanced
>> search, nothing comes up. If you just google for it, in the groups
>> seach, it comes up.
>> Usually I have gone through the advanced search feature to find
>> things. Something indeed must be wonky there.
>
>Just the other day I had a hissy fit, couldn't find my recipe for chicken
>catch.
>I googled every configuration I could think of. Finally googled on water,
>from
>pre-2005, nothing. Well, surely I said water at *some* point in the last 10
>years.
>
>So then, sf pulled up my recipe no problem. It's definitely wacky.
>
>nancy

For the past couple of weeks I've been unable to pull up my own
current posts. Today they seem to be showing up. Weird.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

On 2007-07-31, Christine Dabney > wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, Google Groups is whacked. If I put hartman magarita in all word
and rec.food.cooking in group, I get only this thread. If I delete
the rec.food.cooking in the group box, I get 323 responses, most from
rec.food.cooking. Go figure.

Google Groups is getting more and more screwed up. They now sometimes
list only headers, toss whole articles, etc. I saw this coming a long
time ago. Despite all the claims by folks that storage is so cheap
storage will never be a problem, archiving all those posts adds up.
There are 80K+ newsgroups and people who refuse to trim millions of
lines of quoted text are crapping everything up.

nb

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.

--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

On Jul 31, 7:26 pm, notbob > wrote:
> On 2007-07-31, Christine Dabney > wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes, Google Groups is whacked. If I put hartman magarita in all word
> and rec.food.cooking in group, I get only this thread. If I delete
> the rec.food.cooking in the group box, I get 323 responses, most from
> rec.food.cooking. Go figure.
>
> Google Groups is getting more and more screwed up. They now sometimes
> list only headers, toss whole articles, etc. I saw this coming a long
> time ago. Despite all the claims by folks that storage is so cheap
> storage will never be a problem, archiving all those posts adds up.
> There are 80K+ newsgroups and people who refuse to trim millions of
> lines of quoted text are crapping everything up.
>
> nb


I don't get why the PTB are so intent on archiving anything. They
could dump anything older than 3 months, and who would care??

N.

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.

Groups search has been wacky and inconsistent for some time now. One
thing that seems to make a difference is your SafeSearch setting. If
it's on "strict", then lots of posts aren't found, even though there
doesn't seem to be anything in them that should cause a problem.




Brian

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