[Info-vax] Usenet searching

[AEF]

On Jan 4, 4:56 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> 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.

I used to have problems with quoted search strings containing spaces.
Didn't think much of it except that I struggled on to find what I
wanted. After that, I just wondered why it didn't work and moved on.

But I just tried "inefficiently used" and it worked.

I'm glad to see it's not just me and based on the above it's getting
better.

AEF