Google groups

Is it me, or has that helpful page where you could confine a search to
a specific newsgroup, such as ukrm, and author and key words and time
frame disappeared?

 

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

Which is available from http://groups.google.com/ by clicking advanced
search

 

Thanks both. The answer is that the route from google.co.uk appears to
have changed to this

http://groups.google.co.uk/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg

thence this

http://groups.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en&q=&hl=en&

Google.com, however, gives the page I'm used to.

 

As others have said: it's just you.

However, be aware that the "group" search is currently somewhat broken,
and may not return the results that you expect if you use wildcards in
the group name.

 

even within a group, search is pretty broken.

 

Not really - see my post to wessie.

 

I see you've found your answer, but I had this exact experience
yesterday - take one route, you get one page, another and you get a
different one.

 

Not that I am suggesting that I could do better -
however, I get the idea that Google Groups is
not being run by the sharpest tool in the Google Box.

Google Groups did not receive
usenet messages for the whole weekend of
both 5 Oct and 26 Oct. Most disturbing is that
the Google Groups Help Group had a number of
user comments - as one might expect - but had
exactly NO response from Google regarding two
outages of several days each.

My question is - what other Google 'services' might
be abandoned at Google's whim?

 

Well, it seems proper fucked now - both routes give the same page, and
that page doesn't include the option to search between certain dates.
Which is a right bloody pain.

 

You can get round it a bit by including, say, 2008 in the "all these
words" search field.