[Info-vax] Usenet searching

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> Jojimbo wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wonder if when the bought the data from Deja they screwed up the
>>loading into the google databases so that indexing is impossible.
> 
> 
> No. The searching of th "deja" archives by Google worked really well for
> quite some time. It is only in the last year (or so) that it broke.
> 

I'd second that. A couple of months ago google was unable to locate
the term "VAX" in comp.sys.dec, inconceivable.
It appeared that it had difficulties to search back
more than a couple of months, whereas in "advanced search"
(which is more cumbersome to use unfortunately) it seemed to work.
I also got that Google message accusing me to be a bot,
quite scary because I don't use BillyWare for surfing.