off topic: google groups sucks?

[Stefan Behnel]

jkn wrote:
> On Aug 17, 3:05 pm, Aaron Watters <aaron.watt... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just a note.  It seems that google groups is increasing the
>> sucks coefficient.
>>
>> I search for things using "group search" for comp.lang.python
>> and I get no results even though I know there are results from
>> a few months or weeks ago.
> 
> There seems to be a problem with Google Searching 'at the moment'. I
> have seen it with other groups, but not noticed it to date on c.l.p.
> 
>     http://groups.google.com/group/groupsknownissues/browse_thread/thread/d88d02f269a7d20d#

I noticed a problem with Google in general this weekend, not even related
to mailing lists. I can't remember getting similarly bad results from a web
search for years. Even trivial queries that worked for months returned
completely unrelated pages and lacked the "obvious" target page in the
result set.

Stefan