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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[JavaLord]

Why would you remove the search by date function? That is insanely useful when you are looking for posts about a particular product, especially tech products where you might only want the most recent posts, or you might be searching for an oudated product.

Re:A little respect

[dave-tx]

who are we to question the removal of features?

We're the users. That's our right as users. If nobody questions the decision to remove features, then how does Google know what features we liked?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with constructive criticism, even with respect to a "free" service.