A Google user reports receiving search results from Google Groups placed at the bottom of the Web results page. I have not succeeded in duplicating this phenomenon. I like the idea, though; Usenet newsgroups aren't exactly mainstream but I use them all the time to get answers to technical questions and computer problems. If Google has the smarts to determine when a technical, newsgroup-ish question is being queried, I would shove the Groups results above the Web results.
Google Mixing In Groups Results?
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(Page 1)2. Yeah, I have seen the Google Groups results before too, usually when I was searching for something pretty technical. I did not realize that this was relatively new.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Evan Brown
3. There has been a change in the past few months with Google gingerly integrating many of its other programs into the SERPs - perhaps as a test :?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=book+google+hacking&btnG=Search
BTW:
depending on your query - you will also get specific news groups posts in the main SERPs
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=google+yahoo+newsgroups&btnG=Search
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Search Engines Web
5. Thoai, you do not need an invitation anymore. Gmail is open to everyone now.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dora The Explorer
1. I've been seeing this happen fairly regularly for at least a month now.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Bradley