Re: How to turn a positive transaction into a negative one

wake up and smell the coffee- your intelligence level isn't cutting it

Google acquired all the Usenet archives, and is the dominant posting
interface, not requiring a newsreader- since 2001.

Mr. Know-it-all tricky Dicky- wrong again.

some net expert you are

Where did Usenet come from?


Before the Web and web browsers, and before email became ubiquitous,
online communication meant posting text messages on electronic bulletin

boards where others could read and reply to them. Usenet began as a
collection of these bulletin boards (now called discussion forums or
newsgroups) started in 1979 by Steve Bellovin, Jim Ellis, Tom Truscott,

and Steve Daniel at Duke University. Over the years, the number of such

newsgroups has grown to the thousands, hosted all over the world and
covering every conceivable topic about which humans converse.


While there was incredibly valuable information available in the
discussions taking place on newsgroups, finding that information could
be an exercise in frustration and futility. Someone would start a topic

with a posting on a bulletin board. Someone else would reply. This
initial post and response now constituted a "thread" on the topic. The
thread might grow to include dozens or even hundreds of individuals
responding to the first post or any that came after it. They might
start threads of their own as offshoots of the original discussion.
Think of that initial post as a single cell dividing again and again,
mutating and expanding geometrically with no predefined direction. The
result is likely something you'd find in a low budget horror movie.
Finding a specific bit of information in Usenet was an equally horrific

task. To make it more complex, almost all newservers expire messages
after a few days or, at most, a few weeks. Expired messages are deleted

from the live discussion forums and aren't viewable or searchable by
users.


In 1995, Deja News was created to provide a user-friendly interface to
Usenet. Deja began archiving and indexing messages so they could be
searched and sorted, turning an ephemeral and unmanageable resource
into a reference tool that was fairly easy to use.


In February 2001, Google Inc., a company dedicated to providing access
to all information online, acquired the Usenet discussion service from
Deja.com, including its entire Usenet archive of more than 500 million
messages -- over a terabyte of human conversation. Google has expanded
accessibility to the Usenet database through deployment of improved
search and browsing tools and integration of the full archive with more

recent postings. The combined database of more than 650 million
messages already constitutes the largest collection of Usenet data on
the Web and is growing at a rapid pace.


Rate this post: Text for clearing space

http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.usenet/browse_thread/thread/129d92bc5e3c684c

Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from
Deja.com


Award-Winning Search Engine Launches Beta Version of Usenet
Newsgroup
Search


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 12, 2001 - Google Inc. today
announced that is has acquired Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service.

This acquisition provides Google with Deja's entire Usenet archive
(dating back to 1995), software, domain names including deja.com and

dejanews.com, company trademarks, and other intellectual property.
Financial terms of this transaction were not released.


Available now at http://groups.google.com, this powerful new Usenet
search feature enables Google users to access the wealth of
information contained in more than six months of Usenet newsgroup
postings and message threads. 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.


"We welcome Deja's loyal users into the growing community of Google
users worldwide," said Larry Page, Google CEO and co-founder. "With
more than 500 million individual messages and growing fast, Usenet
and
its thriving community is one of the most active and valuable
information sources on the Internet."


"The acquisition of Deja's significant assets will enable Google to
offer an important new source of information to both Deja and Google

users," said Omid Kordestani, Google's vice president of business
development and sales. "We will continue to build and acquire the
necessary technologies to provide the best search experience to
millions of Google users worldwide."


The award-winning Google search engine serves 70 million searches
per
day, with approximately half of these searches performed on the
company's homepage at http://www.google.com. Google offers a wide
variety of custom search service products and currently licenses its

search technology to more than 120 companies in 30 countries.


About Google Inc.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web
and
the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers

the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the
Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company

numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards;
WIRED magazine's Reader Raves Award; Best Internet Innovation and
Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on
the
Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME

magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies

worldwide, including Yahoo!, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely
on
Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company
based in Mountain View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. More information about

Google can be found on the Google site at http://www.google.com.


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