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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...   |
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
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. |
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... |
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... |
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? |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
Salon.com
June 23, 2000
Caren Weiner Campbell |
Everyone's a critic Consumer Reports faces down a handful of online upstarts. |
