On 1/30/2011 2:24 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I was watching a documentary called "Download: The True Story of the
Internet:" One of the shows is about search, and Google has made
quite a few dollars by showing ads on their search page. It seems
that people are willing to pay big bucks for ads.

I just wonder how may advertisers are unhappy since Google search has
ruined Usenet searches. As I have quit using Google to search Usenet,
my hits have dropped significantly. I can only hope that the hits
drop so low as to cause Google to go back to being useful.

Google has changed from enormously valuable search tool to a useless
piece of crap.

Agreed. But is there anything else out there that has a Usenet archive?
I, too, miss being able to find ancient old posts.

Serious question, BTW.

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