Google Revises Usenet Search

michaelmalak writes "Wednesday night, Google Groups announced in a thread the rollout of their revised 20-year Usenet archive search engine. Among the various 'improvements': ability to search by date has been eliminated, as has the ability to deep link to a single post. See the announcement thread for others' reaction." An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has published some interesting insights into what makes Google tick. In this lengthy article, Google's vice-president of engineering, Urs Hölzle delves into the nuts and bolts behind Google's operations, what back-up mechanisms and hardware setup is in place and even some interesting homegrown technology like the Google File System (GFS)."

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GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!

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This is the worst piece of shit I have ever seen. Are you reading this Google? What the fuck it wrong with you? Why the fuck would you remove features such as date search and the dotted lines that helped you navigate threads more easily????

This is the kind of assinine bullshit that Google HAS NOT engaged in in the past and has made it successfull. What the fuck are you thinking with this crap?

I use google groups on a daily basis to help find information. USENET is one of the most valuable resources on the interenet and I was very scared when google took over. I did not like the interface at first, but I got used to it BECAUSE IT INCORPORATED THE IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE DEJA INTERFACE. Now you are removing features which are absolutely critical to making your USENET archive functional and useful to people. Get your fucking heads out of your asses and put it back the way it was.

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You're an idiot, right? Open your eyes to -1 posts not showing up for anonymous users by default. Big whoop.