"Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
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That is reasonable, but Google should start by removing their own usenet
"rip-off" from the web search.
Funilly enough the count on the google search link I gave went down from 31
million to 5 million overnight. In case google are still listening they need
to add /group to the robots.txt as well as /groups :-)

Jim wrote:

I'd say it's a free search engine -- just not a free customer delivering
device. (Actually, it's even that unless one chooses to increase the
alleged rate of customer delivery, isn't it.)

I search. For free. Free searching.

Some people pay to advertise.



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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:33 -0800, Blinky the Shark put finger to
keyboard and typed:

But how do you tell them apart? I look after the "official" website of
a moderated newsgroup (inasmuch as a newsgroup can have an official
website), and part of the site is a web gateway to the group. This is
partly so that we have a web-based archive, but also to allow people
without direct Usenet access to participate in the group without using
Google. I don't think it would be reasonable for the whole site to
lose out because of that.

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Mark Goodge wrote:

I dunno. I do ideas. Someone else does code.

I don't dig web gateways to Usenet, myself.


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Disco Octopus <discooctopus@yahoo.com> wrote in
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i have been a massive fan of google for years - but in the past 6 months or
so, they have been making one bad decision after another. imho

to not list forum pages is merely their latest poor decision.

Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote in
news:las0221o4s77sdpaqd5bag2q9ive5r4t1a@news.marks house.net:


absolutely

every other day i find a solution to some problem, or other, in a
discussion forum.

"Jim" <Jim@weburbia.com> wrote in
news:dvqn6k$mbi$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk:


and of course if google stop listing forums, the visitors to their own
google forums will rocket.......and with plenty of advertising on said
google groups, someone will make a lot of money

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:48:02 GMT, David Cary Hart <Deming2U@TQMcube.com> wrote:

yeah, an official statement would be great. or some anecdotal evidence.

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:02:49 -0800
David M. Besonen <davidb@panix.com> opined:
Someone started this thread which has been extremely active. I have
yet to see anything supporting the notion that Google is deindexing
forums, let alone any specificity.

Anyone?

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:21:11 -0800, Blinky the Shark put finger to
keyboard and typed:

Fair enough!

Nor do I, as a general rule. But we have a specific problem in that
the group in question is moderated, but several large ISPs seem to
manage to keep losing the moderation flag on their active file,
meaning that their customers can't post to the group. A web interface
is one way round this.

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