BS: Google eats Deja.com

Subject: Google eats Deja.com
From: Burke
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 08:15 PM

Google Inc. has acquired Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, including its archive of more than 500 million messages--a terabyte of human conversation dating back to 1995.

With a really bad local news feed, I've counted on Deja.com for my newsreading for ages. Deja is gone, at least temporarily & right now I don't know what I'll do to keep up.

Subject: RE: BS: Google eats Deja.com
From: GUEST,Zebedee
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 11:37 AM

Burke,

You could try newsone.net

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Google eats Deja.com
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 12:21 PM

better yet, try http://www.usenet-replayer.com/index.en.html.gz

doesn't have the archives, but Google says they'll have that soon...in the meantime Google has messages back to last August, and the search and display functions seem even better to me....

Subject: RE: BS: Google eats Deja.com
From: Burke
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 11:15 PM

I think Goggle made changes between yesterday & today. Deja had gotten pretty hard to navigate but yesterday I could not find how to get to a specific group in Google. I found it earlier today, but at that point the group I wanted to read had nothing newer than 2 days ago. I just checked and I see some messages from today, so I think I just hit as they are getting going. I wonder if they'll allow posting messages. Right now all one can do is read.

Ed & Bill thanks for the pointers to some alternatives.

Subject: RE: BS: Google eats Deja.com
From: Zebedee
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 07:18 PM

I checked back for the first time in about a week today. Whilst posting isn't yet available, it's muchimproved and they have provided a list of web based usenet providers

Despite the short term inconvenience, I reckon Google's takeover is going to be great news in the long term. Clean, easy to use interfaces etc.

Ed