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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.   |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
January 7, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
The geeks who saved Usenet Google's restoration of digital history relied on a few heroes' packrat mentality and a mountain of decaying mag tapes... |
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... |
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
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
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? |
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
August 23, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Lycos Introduces People, Discussion Search Tools In a bid to differentiate itself from Google and the other major search players, Lycos has rolled out two search tools aimed at helping people connect with other people. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Newsgroup Searching: And Then There Was One Last year, when DejaNews changed its name and pulled away from being a newsgroup-centric service, RemarQ became a strong alternative for those wishing to search discussions in Usenet. But last month, RemarQ became no more, as new owner Critical Path pulled the plug. |
PC World
January 2006
Scott Spanbauer |
Free Expert Advice on the Web's Forums: Priceless Consult online communities to get assistance and opinions, fast. |
Reason
November 2003
Wendy M. Grossman |
The Spam Wars How should the Internet deal with junk mail? |
Searcher
August 2007
Mike Reid |
Online Social Networks, Virtual Communities, Enterprises, and Information Professionals - Part 1. Past and Present If information professionals embrace the burgeoning field of online social networking and virtual community building for their organizations, they will be in a unique position to bring order to chaos. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 29, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Community-Driven Search a la Microsoft Microsoft on Tuesday launched a public beta version of Windows Live QnA, a search engine designed for users to ask specific questions that members of the Live community answer. |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Finding Treasure in Boards and Forums Most people turn to the web as a primary information source these days, but there's a lot of great stuff in traditional forums and bulletin board systems - if you know where to look. |
