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he searchable listing of groups is at groups.google.com/groups/dir. Use
moderately to fairly general words to do your searching, such as sports,
baseball, money, woodworking, autism, or medicine. When you get search
results they look like
Figure 9.6
.
Figure 9.6
group listings from google groups.
Groups will be divided up at the top by category, region, language, activity,
and number of users. hen the list of groups will appear below. Group list-
ings include group name, description, and if the group is one of Google's
mailing lists, the number of members.
But let's start with the categorical searching. Let's go back to the antique
woodworking example. I want to monitor groups for mentions of antique
woodworking, and ater some browsing I've decided that the recreation
hierarchy of newsgroups is my best bet. So I search for:
“antique woodworking” group:rec*
he group special syntax lets me restrict my searches to a single group or
a category of groups. he rec* searches every group in the recreation cat-
egory. (You can also search under subcategories—group:rec.sports* will
search only those groups in the sports subcategory.)
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