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[Michael Moroney]

kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

>Why are you using google at all?  Their interface was okay back in the 
>mid-nineties but every change they have ever made to it has made it worse.
>For years the only reason to use google was the archives, and now that the
>archive indices are all broken and the advanced search mechanism removed,
>there is none at all.

I once came up with this theory:

Google, like any large company, would sometimes hire incompetent employees.  Rather
than fire them, they would reassign them to a dungeon deep below Google headquarters
where their new job was to make Google Groups worse and worse.