Re: Google is useless and slowly destroying Usenet

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:16:28 GMT, <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ok, so at this point most Google searches return nothing but endless
links to eBay auctions, Nextag, Bizrate and 10,000 other shopping
sites, and their Usenet archives are slowly but surely becoming equally
useless. First they stripped groups they don't like, then they went to
a horribly user unfriendly search format, and now they're not even
listing freaking DATES on Usenet posts.

Someone! Please! create a new and decent search engine, and stop
Google from converting the internet and Usenet into just another
version of the Home Shopping Network!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You took the words right out of my mouth. I cant stand Google
anymore, and I gave up using Ebay years ago.

Before Google even existed, I used altavista.com. Once again I am
back to using it as my primary search engine. There are at least 25
other search engines, too many people seem to think Google is all
there is. Even yahoo is better than google, but I prefer the smaller
ones such as altavista.

Doing newsgroups on Google is a major hassle and is far too slow. Get
some real usenet software such as Agent, and archive the stuff that
interests you on your own computer. Screw Google !!!!
.

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