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Google Groups advanced-search engine seems broken. Second opinion?

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Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t

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Nov 1, 2009, 8:48:48 PM11/1/09
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When I go to this URL:
Linkname: Google Groups Advanced Search
URL: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&q=&hl=en&
and fill in these parts of the form:
Find web pages that have...
all these words: uh3t________________
..
Results per page:
[30 results_]
[Sort by date_____]
..
leave the rest of the form blank or default, and then click the
submit button:
Link that you currently have selected
Linkname: Advanced Search
Method: GET
Enctype: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Action: http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en
the first result that comes back shows like this:
Sausage making and "binders" - nntpnews.net
3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 5 hours ago
I might write an essay about "binders" and bindings, Robert Maas,
http://tinyurl
.com/uh3t, comp.programming, 4, 08-03-09 07:54 AM ...
http://www.nntpnews.net/f4598/sausage-making-binders-12164896/
The link is:
Linkname: Sausage making and "binders" - nntpnews.net
URL:
http://www.google.com/url?url=http://www.nntpnews.net/f4598/saus
age-making-binders-12164896/&ei=cjjuSrr9D6SqkASgos3PBg&sa=t&ct=r
es&cd=1&source=groups&usg=AFQjCNFobN_J2hzzo7gW3dp5NbmT5A4Now
but when I click on that link, it takes me to:
Linkname: Sausage making and "binders" - nntpnews.net Mobile
URL:
http://www.nntpnews.net/f4598/sausage-making-binders-12164896/
That WebPage has no mention of either my first or last name, no
mention of 'uh3t', no mention of 'bindings', no mention of 'essay',
and no mention of the newsgroup 'comp.programming'. It has lots of
mentions of 'binders', but only in the sausage context, not in the
context cited regarding writing an essay on binders and bindings.
It seems to be a completely bogus search result. Can somebody
please explain what is going on?

Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t

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Nov 7, 2009, 1:18:18 PM11/7/09
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Update: After I posted a few days ago, Google Groups advanced
search got broken even worse than it was broken before. Now when I
do a search for all articles ever posted that mention 'uh3t', it
comes up with fewer than fifty articles total. It's as if their
entire newsgroup archive has disappeared from their index.

Does anybody reading this thread have any contact inside Google who
will please explain what the fuck is going on there?

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