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Google Groups?

January 27th, 2010

usenet Google can very effectively selected portfolio of products and services. Usenet also could not be crumpled by Google. And so in 2001, Google acquired the Usenet archive Deja News. History is quite interesting, because Deja News was founded in 1985 as a public Usenet archive by a man named Steve Madere. One advantage was that the archive retained messages indefinitely and it also offered an innovative approach to searching. However, over time the company started to transform into the shopping portal. In 2000 the company fell into financial trouble and the service was sold to eBay. They absorbed a part of Deja News. Google bought archives and changed its name to the Google Groups archive of expanding the private data collected back until 1981 thus becoming the largest repository of text in Usenet.

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Usenet archives

August 24th, 2009

Usenet is a great repository of data. Many users use it not only by downloading or providing binary data but also often the text is more important. This happens more often when you begin to perceive it as a useful tool in our work. Occurs the question of who can provide us with the archives of the newsgroups for a few years back. After a brief review of the market appears to be only one company: Giganews. Giganews gives us the possibility of using text resources on the Usenet, over 6 years ago-now it is exactly 2254 days. Competitors are far behind – the best can offer about 3 years text data retention. Read more…

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