Re: [ts-7000] yahoo group dead search functions

[Dan Weese <>]

Google keeps us reasonably well indexed

e.g Google yahoo ts7000 rc.d

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Tom <m("dinkumsoftware.com","content");">> wrote:

 

Hello group.

I'm a group member. I've been an embeddedArm developer and group member for about a year. I frequently try to refer the group and less frequently contribute content.

There's relatively high quantity of good quality content in the group.

...but the Yahoo Group toolset seems brain dead. My major restriction in using the group is Yahoo's (or my) inability to search reasonably.

I can't make advanced searches at all. In multiple 10-15 minute sessions over the last year I couldn't manage to search for all messages with "foobar" in the subject. I end up giving up. I know the answer to my question is in the forum but end up googling the world in general.

Is it my cockpit error or is the Yahoo Group Search terminally broken?

>From the help/sidebar, it appears that there is an "advanced search bug" that migrating this group will fix. Of course I couldn't find a description of the bug. Anyway, in 5 minutes of surfing the chatter I'm suspecting this is old news to the moderators and/or group.

My questions for anyone (and/or moderators) is:
1. any belief migrating this group will make life better?
2. if so, is there any action other than nagging yahoo to make this happen?
3. what's the moderators position on "migrating"?

I had some private email with a moderator to get his take privately before posting to the group, but it didn't seem to get much traction. My guess is there have been multiple "flame wars" in the group in
the past.... but as I couldn't search for them I don't know for sure :)

anyway, I thought I'd throw it out there for a hopefully flameless discussion and/or solution

thanks in advance
tom campbell
www.DinkumSoftware.com

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