[LastTrain]

Any of you archivers out there know whatever became of the Deja News Archive after Google bought it?

https://www.wired.com/2001/02/google-buys-deja-archive/

This was integrated into Google seearch, it worked great for many years, and then it seems Google slowly chipped away at access to the archive and now it all but gone.

I know about the various Usenet archives on archive.org (utzoo (rip), some CD usenet archive), but I want that Deja archive!

[secabeen]

It's all still there, if you know how to dig. Here are posts in rec.arts.drwho from before 2004-11-02:

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/search?q=before%3...

[squarefoot]

Every time one finds a USENET post about a good product or service, is one less ad impression and potential clicks on a website; in other words, USENET couldn't be monetized, so it had to go.

Google literally embraced and extinguished it by first incorporating the message base into the web search, but apparently that wasn't enough, so they at first hid the "Discussions" search option, so that users had to enable it either by some search string fu or with 3rd party browser extensions, then killed it entirely. From that moment, a search that once would return links to people discussing X now would mostly return links to companies selling that X. The rest is history.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discussion-search-dead-1...

[indymike]

Deja News -> Google Groups.