Wired reports that an article they published publicly embarrassed Google about a bug with Google Groups search that has been an issue for over a year now, that was fixed in a matter of a day, after Wired wrote about it.

Wired wrote:

700 million lost posts in the archive! Wow! Google’s response:

The thing is, as Tedster points out in a WebmasterWorld thread that Slashdot wrote about this in November 2008. But Google did not fix it then.

In any event, Google Groups has now 700 million more posts of content in the system. It only took a day of work and a year of time for Google to make happen.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.