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Google Revises Usenet Search

Posted by michael on from the what's-usenet? dept.

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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  1. Re:WTF? by stupidfoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry to have to do this but:

    The phrase That was the two is improper. I could have let one time go without correction, but it has now been stated twice.

    Correct form: Those were the two

    Thank you, drive through.

  2. Re:A little respect by SlashdotMirrorer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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?

    Is this really necessary? Think of bearded terminal hacker #1: Linus Trolvads. Did he (or even now) care about the features everybody else wanted? No. He simply wanted a version of BSD UNIX that he could run on the PC that he built. Sometimes the screw-you-guys approach produces good software.

    Let everyone else build it into the SVR4 GNU/Linux Distro Whatever they want to. If you want features so bad, bolt them on yourself.

  3. Re:WTF? by Mwongozi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.