There are so many bugs in Google Group search! It should be an embarrassment for a company which was founded on search and still has the best web search. I had

There are so many bugs in Google Group search! It should be an embarrassment for a company which was founded on search and still has the best web search. I had assumed that Google had just written off Groups as a loss and moved all the developers to profit-making divisions, but evidently not, given this announcement. Even worse is Google patent search. Two months ago, after the Gelernter/Microsoft patent decision, I searched for inventions with "ininventor:Gelernter". Nada. Zero. I reported this via http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?contact_type=patents http://www.google.com/support/contact/bin/request.py?contact... I tried it again today. Still broken. And a search for inventor Dean Kamen yields 10 patents, as opposed to 113 on the uspto.gov site. Is there anybody from Google reading this that has enough influence to at least suggest that these search problems be investigated?