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Search Engine Watch
March 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Acquires Deja Newsgroup Service Google purchased the Deja newsgroup archives last month and is now running them within its own site. Despite saving the service, Google came under criticism from hardcore Deja users upset about lost functionality during the transition period...   |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Petition To Save Newsgroup Archives A petition to restore access to previous years of the Deja newsgroup archives has been posted, while the service is up for sale. |
Information Today
May 14, 2001
Richard W. Wiggins |
Google Seeks to Restore Deja Functionality When search engine portal company Google acquired Deja.com's archive of Usenet News postings, much of the functionality of the Deja site was lost. Since the February acquisition, Google has restored some of the lost searching functionality... |
Salon.com
June 20, 2000
Andrew Leonard & Katharine Mieszkowski |
Deja.com loses its memory Now that Deja is busy helping you decide what to buy next, it doesn't have room to store its old-school Usenet archives. |
Information Today
February 19, 2001
Richard W. Wiggins |
Google Acquires Deja.com Deja's story is one more reminder that the utopian days of the Net are gone, and that if a service doesn't have a viable means of financial support, users are unwise to assume its permanent presence... |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Improves Newsgroups, Makes Inroads To Japan Google has now made the full archives of newsgroup postings it acquired from Deja available via its Google Groups service. They date back to March 29, 1995. The company has also launched a new Japan edition and signed deals with major Japanese portals... |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Options for customizing or personalizing the search forms seems to be the new change of the month... AltaVista has made several significant changes in the past several months... Deja.com has lost much of its older Usenet archives... Excite has modified its results display... etc. |
ONLINE
May 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update With the crash of the dot com economy, it is perhaps no surprise to see some search engines disappearing from the scene as well. This month's update notes the death of both the Infoseek Web search engine and the Deja.com Usenet search engine... |
PC World
June 19, 2002
Tom Mainelli |
Newsgroups Get a New Life Usenet's ranks swell as surfers seek community and free stuff -- raising interest in other camps. |
Search Engine Watch
May 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Everything Google Underneath its simple, sparse interface, Google is loaded with useful tools and services, though they're not always easy to find. A new book How to do Everything with Google offers an insider's guide to maximizing the power of the search engine. |
Salon.com
January 22, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Relics of the lost bulletin-board tribes Text files preserve some of the vivacity of old-fashioned online conversation. Will Web-based discussions vanish from the historical record? |
ONLINE
July 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista continues to make changes to its site... Google has added automatic translation capability... Google Groups has expanded its advanced search capabilities and the depth of its Usenet archive... iLor has received much press lately for its innovative addition of features to Google... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
The "New" AltaVista With great fanfare, the "new" AltaVista was launched last week. Now owned by CMGI, the revamped service is being firmly targeted as a challenger against more established portals such as Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy Usenet is still being used and, surprisingly, it's growing. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Groups Adds Mailing Lists & Other Features, Competes With Yahoo Groups Google has added new mailing list creation functionality to its Google Groups service, giving it a capability that competes directly with the Yahoo Groups service. |
PC Magazine
July 31, 2008
Sascha Segan |
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 Child-porn investigations have doomed one of the last remnants of a smaller, kinder Net. |
InternetNews
November 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Guba Gives Usenet a Modern Shot Guba announced enhancements to its Usenet search service that lets users find multimedia content disguised as text files. |
InternetNews
October 17, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Flush From Victory, RIAA Goes Headhunting A suit against Usenet.com may seem like a foolish move, but the site may have handed the RIAA the noose with which to hang it. |
Search Engine Watch
February 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
WebTop Search Rage Study A study conducted on behalf of search engine WebTop in the middle of 2000 sheds light on how often Internet users in the United States search, what they look for and the satisfaction or frustration they encounter, when searching. |
