More Google "Groups" changes...
 

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:26:57 GMT, Steve Wertz
> wrote:

>Looks like they've changed the interface yet again. Groups is
>not on the "More" tab now either. "More" gives you a whole page
>of services, of which Groups is *way* down on the list.
>
>This is good for the most part as it will reduce newbies coming
>across it and spamming. But I did like to be able to search
>regular Google, and if I didn't like the results, be able to
>search Usenet with just one more click.

Why not bookmark the Google group search page? Or, keep it in a saved
tab if you use Firefox or the new IE, not that there is as much reason
to do so as there used to be.

More Google "Groups" changes...
 

Steve Wertz > wrote in
:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:01:34 -0700, Jed wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:26:57 GMT, Steve Wertz
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Looks like they've changed the interface yet again. Groups
>>>is not on the "More" tab now either. "More" gives you a
>>>whole page of services, of which Groups is *way* down on the
>>>list.
>>>
>>>This is good for the most part as it will reduce newbies
>>>coming across it and spamming. But I did like to be able to
>>>search regular Google, and if I didn't like the results, be
>>>able to search Usenet with just one more click.
>>
>> Why not bookmark the Google group search page? Or, keep it in
>> a saved tab if you use Firefox or the new IE, not that there
>> is as much reason to do so as there used to be.
>
> That doesn't solve my problem of being able to use the same
> search term for both web and Usenet searches. Otherwise I
> just type "deja.com" to get to groups. I don't use bookmarks
> for URL's that are short and easy to remember.
>
> After a little experimenting, I found out I can replace
> "search" in the resulting web-search url with "groups", and
> that gives me the same functionality as pressing the former
> "Groups" tab.


Why not use 'usenet' and a good news reader?
Does SBC have news groups?


> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...oo&btnG=Search
> Becomes
> http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&l...oo&btnG=Search
> ^^^^^^
> -sw