Re: Yahoogr. search engine

From: tolgs001
Message: 35608
Date: 2004-12-23

>It works - you just have to keep hitting the "Next"
>link at the top of the results to go further back into
>the archives, because it only searches groups of c. 150
>mesages at a time.
>
>- Chris Gwinn

Thank you. Now and then I get messages posted in 2004,
but none of those posted in previous years.

Let's take "gwen etymology", message no. 4917; I get
no result if I arrange the words this way:

"gwen etymology"
gwen etymology
"gwen"
gwen

whereas:

etymology -> gives this result:
"Searched Messages 35607-35300 of 35607 Previous Next"
"etymology"
"Searched Messages 35607-35341 of 35607 Previous Next"

#

Now and then I get some messages containing "gwen" if I hit "Next"
many a time. But no intermediary/"preview" information whatsoever,
so I am not given the hint that I'll have to click "Next" as many
times as to reach the message #4917 (quite a long way from
#35607).

Last year or at least until 2 years ago, the search engine
retrieved (almost) everything according to the selected keywords
and put the messages in continuous lists, chronologically.

George