Google groups search for "Tim Smith". 9 hits. Click "sort by date" and then there are 161000 hits.
Google groups search for "Roy Schestowitz". 4 hits. Click "sort by date" and then there are 104000 hits.
Google groups search for "Mark Kent". 46200 hits. Click "sort by date" and it stays 46200 hits.
It used to be that you'd get about the same number of hits regardless of whether you sorted by date or relevance. It's still doing that with Mark, but for Roy and me, it gives far fewer hits when sorted by relevance.
Anyone else seeing this? Or am I just hitting a bad server? (It's been like this for a few days for me, but they seem to use some kind of scheme to try to send you to the same server when you come back, so if there is a broken server in their pool, I could be stuck on it).
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:37:13 -0700, Tim Smith wrote: > Google groups search for "Tim Smith". 9 hits. Click "sort by date" and > then there are 161000 hits.
> Google groups search for "Roy Schestowitz". 4 hits. Click "sort by > date" and then there are 104000 hits.
> Google groups search for "Mark Kent". 46200 hits. Click "sort by date" > and it stays 46200 hits.
> It used to be that you'd get about the same number of hits regardless of > whether you sorted by date or relevance. It's still doing that with > Mark, but for Roy and me, it gives far fewer hits when sorted by > relevance.
> Anyone else seeing this? Or am I just hitting a bad server? (It's been > like this for a few days for me, but they seem to use some kind of > scheme to try to send you to the same server when you come back, so if > there is a broken server in their pool, I could be stuck on it).
Same results here...
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> Google groups search for "Tim Smith". 9 hits. Click "sort by date" and > then there are 161000 hits.
> Google groups search for "Roy Schestowitz". 4 hits. Click "sort by > date" and then there are 104000 hits.
> Google groups search for "Mark Kent". 46200 hits. Click "sort by date" > and it stays 46200 hits.
> It used to be that you'd get about the same number of hits regardless of > whether you sorted by date or relevance. It's still doing that with > Mark, but for Roy and me, it gives far fewer hits when sorted by > relevance.
> Anyone else seeing this? Or am I just hitting a bad server? (It's been > like this for a few days for me, but they seem to use some kind of > scheme to try to send you to the same server when you come back, so if > there is a broken server in their pool, I could be stuck on it).
It was *not* working for me for some time but seems to be now. Might be an update that is propagating...
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> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:37:13 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>> Google groups search for "Tim Smith". 9 hits. Click "sort by date" and >> then there are 161000 hits.
>> Google groups search for "Roy Schestowitz". 4 hits. Click "sort by >> date" and then there are 104000 hits.
>> Google groups search for "Mark Kent". 46200 hits. Click "sort by date" >> and it stays 46200 hits.
>> It used to be that you'd get about the same number of hits regardless of >> whether you sorted by date or relevance. It's still doing that with >> Mark, but for Roy and me, it gives far fewer hits when sorted by >> relevance.
>> Anyone else seeing this? Or am I just hitting a bad server? (It's been >> like this for a few days for me, but they seem to use some kind of >> scheme to try to send you to the same server when you come back, so if >> there is a broken server in their pool, I could be stuck on it).
> Same results here...
Maybe Steve Carroll is taking down Google like he claimed to before:
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Snit <use...@gallopinginsanity.com> writes: > "Tim Smith" <reply_in_gr...@mouse-potato.com> stated in post > reply_in_group-2D1992.17371321072...@news.supernews.com on 7/21/08 5:37 PM:
>> Google groups search for "Tim Smith". 9 hits. Click "sort by date" and >> then there are 161000 hits.
>> Google groups search for "Roy Schestowitz". 4 hits. Click "sort by >> date" and then there are 104000 hits.
>> Google groups search for "Mark Kent". 46200 hits. Click "sort by date" >> and it stays 46200 hits.
>> It used to be that you'd get about the same number of hits regardless of >> whether you sorted by date or relevance. It's still doing that with >> Mark, but for Roy and me, it gives far fewer hits when sorted by >> relevance.
>> Anyone else seeing this? Or am I just hitting a bad server? (It's been >> like this for a few days for me, but they seem to use some kind of >> scheme to try to send you to the same server when you come back, so if >> there is a broken server in their pool, I could be stuck on it).
> It was *not* working for me for some time but seems to be now. Might be an > update that is propagating...
The infamous "Google dance".
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> Google groups search for "Tim Smith". 9 hits. Click "sort by date" and > then there are 161000 hits.
> It used to be that you'd get about the same number of hits regardless of > whether you sorted by date or relevance. It's still doing that with > Mark, but for Roy and me, it gives far fewer hits when sorted by > relevance.
> Anyone else seeing this? Or am I just hitting a bad server? (It's been > like this for a few days for me, but they seem to use some kind of > scheme to try to send you to the same server when you come back, so if > there is a broken server in their pool, I could be stuck on it).
For you, I get the big difference you note. For "Mark Kent" and "Linonut", it is the same either way.
"Bill Gates" gets the "Tim Smith" treatment, as does "Joe Blow" and "Kurtis Blow".
"Ray Ingles" is the opposite - 3 hits by relevance, 0 by date.
"Erik Funkenbusch" gets 1 by relevance, 7 by date.
Is it a bug that they're relevance criterion drops entries? Or is it deliberate?
Wow, I just notice that a post I made a couple of minutes ago is already there, too.
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