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Many of you may have noticed searching newsgroups with Google search is not the same as it was a few years ago. I don't see a way to search and get just newsgroup results. A search of this subject will give a lot of dissatisfied individuals.

I have ran into this which has some functionality, But I haven't did much testing.

Go to bottom and use Usenet Power Search.

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I don't see a search between these dates function.

Anyone have a method to get around the changes Goggle has made? Or a better search engine.

Mikek

PS. Is Google the only archiver of usenet?

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amdx
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Even this site brings up HTTP URLs.

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See any way to limit it? Mikek

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amdx

Are you using this...

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Jim Thompson

Google is by far the largest but not the only one. For electronics this works for me:

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then go -> advanced and pick either the individual group you're interested in or the whole thing. I don't see an option to limit by date tho.

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DA

Yes, and it helps that once your search is displayed, where it says "search" to click Google Groups vs All Groups. But the results are still not limited to newsgroups. Mikek

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amdx

Thanks, but it seems to be very limited in the number of groups searched. Mikek

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amdx

Yup, e.g. the Boolean NOT operator is dead. Google's QA is non-existent; always has been.

That never has been possible. You *used* to be able to get "Google Groups" only; that included Google-only (Web) pages.

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JeffM

How about the minus operator?

For example, searching within this group, binary -clock seems to work...

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Michael

Use google groups to get to SED or whatever group you want. Eventually you will get a page with a box to enter data and two buttons. One button labeled "Search this group" and the other "Search Groups". Now search groups will be a clusterfuck of all sorts of forums and usenet. But "search this group" will just search SED or whatever.

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miso

Michael wrote:

Yup. That's what I said.

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JeffM

It's still the same for me. Click more, groups, google groups. That will do usenet only. Plus other google usenet type groups.

Greg

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gregz

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