My main complaint is the search interface. When they first put the Deja News archive online, the search function was very good. It even improved over the first

My main complaint is the search interface. When they first put the Deja News archive online, the search function was very good. It even improved over the first few years. One great thing is that USENET posts were dated, so you could look for the first occurrence of a word, phrase, rumor, etc. That's hard to do on the web. Then, a few years ago, the search function started to get worse with every release, with reduced functionality and more and more unreliable results. You might search for a term and see a result from 2005. Then, when you limited results to before 2006, you would get nothing! Around the time they were trying to force Google-plus integration, it became nearly unusable. There used to be an advanced search page[1], but that's gone. When you search within a group, there's a pull-down for advanced search options, but that's missing from the main cross-group search. It seems that search operators[2] may still work. The same kind of degradation happened with Google News Archive and, to a lesser extent, Google Books. [1] https://groups.google.com/advanced_search https://groups.google.com/advanced_search [2] https://support.google.com/groups/answer/2371405 https://support.google.com/groups/answer/2371405