[Info-vax] Usenet searching

[JF Mezei]

Jojimbo wrote:
> Ever wonder why searching comp.os.vms with google doesn't work very
> well?  

I've often searched for posts that I had made and google couldn't find
them. At first, I think it was just me not entering text properly. But
doing the same search on "web" yielded my posts via some web sites that
had recorded comp.os.vms.

(For instance, if you recall ap post where the right syntax for doing X
was documented, you want to look for it, but google groups no longer
finds it.)

What I find odd is that this used to work so well. Why was it broken ?