Has anyone noticed that the Google Groups Advanced Search no longer
works correctly? Is it something I'm doing or have others noticed the
change?
Used to be, if I put *access* in the Groups filter, I got groups with the
word
"access" in the name. No longer. Used to be, if I selected "English" as
the
language, I didn't get non-english posts. No longer. What's up with that?
Anyone else notice this?
Danny Lesandrini dl*********@hot mail.com 18  2312 
"dlesandrin i" <da******@comca st.netwrote in
news:i-*************** *************** @comcast.com:
Used to be, if I put *access* in the Groups filter, I got groups
with the word
"access" in the name. No longer. Used to be, if I selected
"English" as the
language, I didn't get non-english posts. No longer. What's up
with that? Anyone else notice this?
Bothe are working just fine for me, and I did a couple of searches
yesterday that worked fine, too.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
David, thanks for the reply. I'm trying it from a different computer, on a
different
network, and I'm not getting such wild results, but still not quite right.
See the
screen shots below with my advanced search, and the results.
They changed something over there at Google, of that I'm certain. http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg001.jpg http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg002.jpg
Danny
"David W. Fenton" <XX*******@dfen ton.com.invalid wrote in message
news:Xn******** *************** ***********@127 .0.0.1...
"dlesandrin i" <da******@comca st.netwrote in
news:i-*************** *************** @comcast.com:
>Used to be, if I put *access* in the Groups filter, I got groups
with the word
"access" in the name. No longer. Used to be, if I selected
"English" as the
language, I didn't get non-english posts. No longer. What's up
with that? Anyone else notice this?
Bothe are working just fine for me, and I did a couple of searches
yesterday that worked fine, too.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
dlesandrini wrote:
David, thanks for the reply. I'm trying it from a different
computer, on a different
network, and I'm not getting such wild results, but still not quite
right. See the
screen shots below with my advanced search, and the results.
They changed something over there at Google, of that I'm certain.
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg001.jpg
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg002.jpg
Danny
I saw the same things. They definitely messed something up.
--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com
"Rick Brandt" <ri*********@ho tmail.comwrote in
news:7f******** ***********@new ssvr12.news.pro digy.net:
dlesandrini wrote:
>David, thanks for the reply. I'm trying it from a different
computer, on a different
network, and I'm not getting such wild results, but still not
quite right. See the
screen shots below with my advanced search, and the results.
They changed something over there at Google, of that I'm certain.
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg001.jpg
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg002.jpg
I saw the same things. They definitely messed something up.
Are you all logging in to do searches? I never do that.
Can someone post the query string that's giving problems?
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
David W. Fenton wrote:
"Rick Brandt" <ri*********@ho tmail.comwrote in
news:7f******** ***********@new ssvr12.news.pro digy.net:
dlesandrini wrote:
David, thanks for the reply. I'm trying it from a different
computer, on a different
network, and I'm not getting such wild results, but still not
quite right. See the
screen shots below with my advanced search, and the results.
>
They changed something over there at Google, of that I'm certain.
>
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg001.jpg
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg002.jpg
I saw the same things. They definitely messed something up.
Oh, and have you tried a decent browser?
I use Firefox, but I fail to see how the browser can cause a search to return
the wrong results. I searched for access groups and the results had more posts
from non-access groups than it did from access groups. And no, I never log in
either. This was from the advanced group search page.
Others have recently reported no results being returned that were more than a
couple years old when doing searches.
--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com
On Jul 10, 9:04 pm, "dlesandrin i" <dataf...@comca st.netwrote:
David, thanks for the reply. I'm trying it from a different computer, on a
different
network, and I'm not getting such wild results, but still not quite right.
See the
screen shots below with my advanced search, and the results.
They changed something over there at Google, of that I'm certain.
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg001.jpg
http://amazecreations.com/datafast/NGQuestImg002.jpg
Danny
I don't think the phonetic similarity between "access" and "alt.sex"
is just a coincidence...
That's fascinating. You may be on to something.
"Chris L." <di******@uol.c om.arwrote in message
news:11******** *************@d 55g2000hsg.goog legroups.com...
>
I don't think the phonetic similarity between "access" and "alt.sex"
is just a coincidence...
Well, the funny thing is, I first started noticing this after having
installed FireFox.
I wasn't using it at the time, but it crossed my mind. I dismissed it,
since I agree
with Rick that it shouldn't matter what browser you use.
I thought that perhaps they started including the group's description in the
search.
That would broaden the results in an unpredictable way.
Danny
"David W. Fenton" <XX*******@dfen ton.com.invalid wrote in message
news:Xn******** *************** ***********@127 .0.0.1...
>
Oh, and have you tried a decent browser?
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