Re: What's Happened to Google Groups?

From: Roger Johansson (no-email_at_home.se)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: 12 Dec 2004 19:03:11 GMT

"Leroy Mowry" <@c.edu> wrote:

> Yes, here http://tinyurl.com/48648
>
> Use it while you can because you'll be stuck with:
> no one-click "sort - by - date" locking feature
> no consistencies on highlighted search texts
> no "search - only - this - group" feature
> no year on threads at a single glance
> no "view - this - article - only"
> no links on opponent's name
> no thread expand lines
> no quoted text color
> no one-click "email"
> no nothing
> nada
>

I tried this and made a search on my own name:
http://www.google.com.au/groups?safe=images&as_uauthors=Roger%20Johansson&lr=&num=50&hl=en

The first result link looks like this:
......

Re: Program to view MIDI playback on a virtual keyboard
Why not use van basco's kareaoke player? It doesn't show notation, but has a keyboard
that lights up That keyboard is so small, and has dark colors, it just doesn't work.
You can't see the harmonies if you cannot see the keyboard clearly. ...
comp.music.midi - 11 Dec 2004 by Roger Johansson - View Thread (12 articles)
......

The first two lines which are quoted are not from me, but google has removed the arrows,
which show up when you click on the link:
..........
> Why not use van basco's kareaoke player?
> It doesn't show notation, but has a keyboard that lights up

That keyboard is so small, and has dark colors, it just doesn't work.
You can't see the harmonies if you cannot see the keyboard clearly.
.........

This removal of arrows in the result list is going to get millions of authors very angry
when they realize that google says that they have said things their opponents have
actually said.

In this case it doesn't matter much, but imagine a heated discussion about a very
controversial issue. Would you like google to show you as the nazi pedophile or
anti-abortion activist you are fighting against?

Maybe we should start every message with an explanation about google groups way to
forge people's articles in the most horrible way to misrepresent the authors views.

If they are going to quote a few lines of the message in the listing we could at least
demand that they take the quote from the authors first own lines, not his opponent's
lines, which have arrows in front of them in the original message. 

-- 
Roger J.
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