On Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:06:10 PM UTC-6, Home Guy wrote:
"Martin C." wrote:

I can't figure out what google means by 'google groups'.

There is no such thing as a 'google group' (or is there?).

When google bought deja about 10 years ago, they rebranded it as "google
groups" and ****ed up the search interface and over-all functionaliy a
little bit at a time ever since.

They added some sort of ability for users to create their own form of
*******ized "groups" (intially heavily used by spammers) and lumped
those groups in with real usenet groups and continued to call the whole
thing - "google groups". These *******ized groups don't propagate to
the outside world - they technically don't conform to nntp or usenet
standards.

When we speak of "google groups" - we are talking about google's usenet
server and the web-based interface they operate through which users can
search, read and post to usenet. Many of the search results are
polluted with results pointing to google's *******-groups.

http://groups.google.com/

You will see on that page, as well as this one:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&

That there is absolutely no mention of "usenet".

Standards change don't you know?
Are you a dinosaur?
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