Universal search expands - google groups now in SERPs

[hugh]

Google.com just presented me with a link to google groups as the top listing in web SERPs...

[Oliver Henniges]

This is not really new. From time to time I search for my own name and my groups-postings have alomost been among the first ten results. (If there only wasn't this &%*#?$-namesake of mine they'd definitely be #1;)

But in a way, yes: Years ago it took "3 to 9 hours" for your usenet-postings to appear on the web if you used google's interface. Now it is a matter of seconds. I cannot remember when ths change took place, but I think this has considerably boosted the ranking of those postings.