Re: *pressure Google to put Groups back on main page...*

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.] On 2006-08-17, Tweedale <seesig_at_nospam.com> wrote:

> Surely the point is that while of course using Google Groups as a
> newsreader would be absurd (not sure I'd like using Thunderbird either,
> mind you), it is extremely useful for /searching/ Usenet postings: it
> quite often happens that a Google web search doesn't turn up much, and
> you think to yourself "Hmmmm, I bet that's been discussed on Usenet in
> the past...", and being able to check this by just clicking the "groups"
> link at the top is a big time-saver.

If you're using Firefox, you can add a google groups search engine to the search box:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=groups.google.com&sherlock=yes&opensearch=&submitform=Search

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John (john_at_os2.dhs.org)