Webapps, where (my) questions fail to get an answer

Question

I am relatively new in the arena of Stack Exchange sites. My oldest subscription is at Stack Overflow and is only ten months old. Now I subscribe to six sites. I am still amazed by the beauty of Stack Exchange.

Anyway, now that I have introduced myself, let us come to the point. It appears to me that in webapps, I am rather unlucky. In the other sites, I got very good answers almost within the day, if not within the hours. It is a different story in Webapps.

In webapps, I have asked three questions so far,

1. Why does Unicode searching fail in Google Calendar?
2. Custom question for people wishing to join groups in new Google groups
3. Deleting old versions of files from Google site

None of these secured me an answer. Only one of these got up voted. For others, nobody even bothered to answer (not even up vote or down vote, thanks for the second one). There have been some views.

May be I will get a bunch of Tumbleweed badges soon. But I am not exactly looking for that dubious distinction.

What could have gone wrong here? My questions were not worthy of answers? But they are my real life problems. And so far, I have never been chastised for asking foolish questions.

One thing in common, all the questions are related to Google applications.

Any inputs, suggestions, and even comments will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Its very possible that, unfortunately, it's simply that someone doesn't know. While I'm not massively active on Web Apps, I've had questions on Super User (which is much more active) sit for ages, and eventually get answered.

It isn't you or the question. It's just the unfortunate lack of intersection between the question and someone who feels they can actually give a quality answer. Maybe eventually someone will work out what's the right answer, and earn themselves a shiny Necromancer badge, but it very definitely isn't a user or system issue.

Answer 2

Most of your questions are such that it's really not possible to be answered.

First:

Why does Unicode searching fail in Google Calendar?

But when I search with a non English Unicode word, the search is not successful.

This seems mainly like a bug with Google Calendar and, honestly, I don't think there's way anyone can answer, unless he's got access to Calendar search codebase.

The second question - is as you said:

However, in the new Google groups, I failed to find this feature, even after repeated searching.

A feature has been removed. I'm not sure if saying "Yes, it's been removed" would be a valid answer, and your related question

But why remove a feature?

cannot be answered by anyone except for Product Management team. There can be a variety of reasons why a feature can be removed

Deleting old versions of files from Google site

You third question also goes into the same category of "there's no way of doing so yet" - and unless conclusively documented, people generally give the silent treatment - implying "No" than a definitive "there's no way to do so".