23 Nov
2019
23 Nov
'19
4:21 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 16:06, Kurt H Maier <khm(a)sciops.net> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 03:49:58PM -0500, Henry Bent
wrote:
Why do you say that? I used a browser that was fully logged out of Google
and in paranoid/private settings mode and I could browse newsgroups, do
basic searching, etc. eg:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/net.unix-wizards/iris%7Csort:date
Has anyone definitely proven that any of the contents of these files are
not in the searchable Google Groups interface? I don't really see any
need
to duplicate their efforts.
That data is essentially unavailable to people without Google accounts.
Even back when it was, the search had degraded to the
point where you
could paste explicit quotes from messages and those messages would not
be in the results page.
I alluded to this sort of problem in my previous email, but in my recent
experience the search results have been satisfactory and I consider the
degraded search problem resolved. I have been able to search for very
precise text strings with entirely satisfactory results over the last few
months.
-Henry