- BBC News: Digital History Saved
"Millions of messages posted on electronic bulletin boards over the past 20 years have been saved from digital oblivion."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1709527.stm
- CNet: Deja.com Struggles After Google Buyout
Stefanie Olsen's article: "Deja.com, a popular newsgroup search service, has been hit with glitches after its buyout this week by Web search provider Google, ruffling the feathers of some longtime customers."
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-252701.html
- Google Groups
Enables users to search and browse the Usenet archives which consist of over 700 million messages, and post new comments.
http://groups.google.com/
- Google Groups Simplifier
Simplifies Google Groups' URLs for easier inclusion in e-mails/posts/web pages. With bookmarklet.
http://www.bleb.org/google/
- New York Times: Privacy Concerns for Google Archive
Susan Stellin's article: "Being able to search archived postings online raises questions about the implications of increasingly sophisticated search technology."
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/technology/07NECO.html
- NewsBreaks: Google Seeks to Restore Deja Functionality
Richard W. Wiggins' article: "Since the February acquisition, Google has restored some of the lost searching functionality, and the company also says that by mid-May users of the Google Usenet index will have the ability to post new messages."
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb010514-1.htm
- Silicon Alley News: Deja Usenet Archives Restored on Google
"To the delight (and possible consternation) of old-school Usenet fans, Web search site Google has restored more than 650 million individual messages dating back to 1995 that were acquired from New York-based Deja.com."
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/8471_755181
- The Write News: Google Provides Access to Full Usenet Archives
Google, a provider of search technology, announced that it has integrated the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by Deja.com with recent posts to provide complete access to Usenet data since 1995.
http://writenews.com/2001/050401_dejanews_archives.htm
- Wired News: Google's Gaggle of Discussions
"Geek-beloved search site Google has fully recovered from last year's public relations gaffe by giving Internet historians exactly what they wanted and more: the most comprehensive collection of Usenet posts available on the Internet."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49016,00.html
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