Editing Google Groups (section)

==Criticism==
''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'' and ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' contributors have criticized Google for its unannounced discontinuation of the Google Groups Advanced Search page. The advanced search page allowed users to perform advanced searches across all groups. Without this page, it became difficult to find specific postings from among a multi-decade archive of posts across multiple newsgroups.<ref name="wired1">{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet |title=Google's Abandoned Library of 700&nbsp;Million Titles |publisher=Wired |date=October 7, 2009 |access-date=August 10, 2010 |first=Kevin |last=Poulsen}}</ref><ref name="wired2">{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet_fix/ |title=Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive |publisher=Wired |date=October 8, 2009 |access-date=August 10, 2010 |first=Kevin |last=Poulsen}}</ref><ref name="motherboard">{{Cite web|url = https://www.vice.com/en/article/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search/|title = Google, a Search Company, Has Made Its Internet Archive Impossible to Search|last = Braga|first = Matthew|website = Motherboard|date=February 13, 2015|access-date=January 18, 2017}}</ref>

===Blocking===
Google Groups was blocked in Turkey on April 10, 2008, by a court order.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=138847 |title=Turkey bans Google Groups |publisher=Today's Zaman |date=April 12, 2008 |access-date=August 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619204119/http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=138847 |archive-date=June 19, 2009 }}</ref> According to ''[[The Guardian]]'', the court banned Google Groups following a libel complaint by [[Adnan Oktar]] against the service. Google Groups was the first of several websites to be blocked by the Turkish government in rapid succession solely for including material that allegedly offended Islam.<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/18/turkey | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Turkish court bans Richard Dawkins website | first=Riazat | last=Butt | date=September 18, 2008 | access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> The ban was removed a month later on May 15, 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeturk.com/tr/2008/05/16/google-in-yasagi-kalkti-sira-youtube-da.html|title=Google'ın yasağı kalktı, sıra Youtube'da - Timeturk: Haber, Timeturk Haber, HABER, Günün haberleri, yorum, spor, ekonomi, politika, sanat, sinema|website=www.timeturk.com|access-date=November 14, 2019}}</ref>