"J. P. Gilliver (John)" on Mon, 8 Oct 2018
17:56:26 +0100 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
In message , pyotr
filipivich writes:
"Linea Recta" on Mon, 8 Oct 2018 17:36:35
+0200 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:



Thanks.
Disappointing they seem to have abandonrd the common sense options...


It is Google. They will decide what is common sense, and make you
use it. Whether it works for you or not. E.G., what they did with
Google Groups has made the archives impossible to search. Which is
not a good look for a Company which started as "search" engine.


I don't know what they've done to GG as I don't use it, but it certainly
seems they've made some of the archive contents appear in search results

I don't use google groups myself. But trying to find a post which
you know was made ... I have better luck looking through my own files.

- but in such a way that the person finding them doesn't realise they're
a newsgroup post, in fact in all likelihood doesn't know what usenet is.
They've also made the user interface in such a way that anyone
attempting to respond to such a posting (a) doesn't realise the posting
is ten or twenty years old (b) thinks they're responding with a private
email to the original poster, rather than a post to a newsgroup. This
seems to be particularly the case for people with @gmail addresses: I'm
not saying anything about such people, more that Google seem to have set
things up such that they in particular are liable to be misled in this
way.

Google has its own standards of what is "good" and useful.
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pyotr filipivich
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