Searching for answers in the Google Group

[David McFarlane]

Just wanted to pass on an annoyance in case it spares anyone else 
some trouble.  I am fond of telling others to first search the 
E-Prime Google Group (or the PST Forum) to find answers any already 
posted to their repeated questions.  Well, if you go to the E-Prime 
Google Group page at http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime and just 
run an regular search there, you run a good chance of *not* finding 
existing useful posts from the past.  This has been documented at 
http://groups.google.com/group/is-something-broken/browse_thread/thread/95a8a776796c050e/25bd19e3c7007975?lnk=raot 
-- it seems that the Search feature on any Group page does not search 
back for more than a few weeks, so if the post you need to find is 
any older then you will miss it!

E.g., a broad search using just the word "multiple" pulled up only 
one, irrelevant, thread from 8 Sep 2009.  When I manually scrolled 
back to Jun 2009 I found several threads with "multiple" in the 
subject line, but even when I was looking right at the threads in the 
list, a search using "multiple" failed to find them!

(And how did I know to scroll back to Jun 2009?  Why, I used the 
search feature at the E-Prime Archive at 
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/eprime.html , which still 
works marvellously.  However, it presents only one post at a time, 
instead of the full thread as shown in the Google Groups view.)

As discussed at the link above, the solution is to go to the Advanced 
Groups Search page at http://groups.google.com/advanced_search 
.  Besides entering your search terms, you must click the radio 
button to make it a Google Groups search, and manually enter the name 
of the group (i.e., "e-prime").

Whew, glad to get that off my chest.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


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