Deja Service under Google groups
The Deja News Research Service was an archive of messages posted to Usenet discussion groups. Its powerful search engine capabilities won the service acclaim, generated controversy, and significantly changed the perceived nature of online discussion. Since there was a big change for Deja news Research service in 1999, the site sharply changed direction and made its primary feature a shopping comparison service. During this transition, which involved relocation of the servers, many older messages in the Usenet archive became unavailable.
By late 2000 the company, in financial distress so the service had shut down one year later in 2001. Then the company was acquired by Google since that time. It was reintroduced as Google groups.
The acquisition of Deja’s significant assets will enable Google to offer an important new source of information to both Deja and Google users. Google continues to build and acquire the necessary technologies to provide the best search experience to millions of Google users worldwide. Once the full Deja Usenet archive is added, users will be able to search and browse more than 500 million archived messages with the speed and efficiency of a Google search. In addition to expanding the amount of searchable data, Google will soon provide improved browsing capabilities and newsgroup posting.
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