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.

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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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
>
> --
> 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.

DaleW wrote:

> 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.

On the basis of my own experience only, though, they don't seem to be
close to complete in their present state. I've Googled for old posts of
mine only to come up totally blank. One time, Google was unable to turn
up a *single* post of mine to afw using the search feature. As I said,
not good.

Mark Lipton


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alt.food.wine FAQ: http://winefaq.cwdjr.net

On Aug 4, 2:26*pm, Mark Lipton > wrote:
> DaleW wrote:
> > 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.
>
> On the basis of my own experience only, though, they don't seem to be
> close to complete in their present state. *I've Googled for old posts of
> mine only to come up totally blank. *One time, Google was unable to turn
> up a *single* post of mine to afw using the search feature. *As I said,
> not good.
>
> Mark Lipton
>
> --
> alt.food.wine FAQ: *http://winefaq.cwdjr.net

If I ignore group search and just search all groups but include
alt.food.wine in string, I haven't found missing posts. I searched
about a dozen offlines I attended (by searching restaurant name and
one wine I knew there), and found them all. Searching "german
tourists" found my argument with Andros, I easily found various
trolls, etc. Seems pretty complete for last decade. I know there were
some holes in the Dejanews archives that Google started with before
that.

Mark Lipton wrote:

> 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.

That's started about a year ago, and is really sad to deal with.
Luckyly putting the newsgroup name does the trick, as Dave sayd.
It's no more the old "googlegroups" we used to know.
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