Trolls and griefers have been with us since the days of BBS boards and usenet. The issue overall is not this specific group, or their enemies per se. In keeping with the tradition of "skip a week and all hell breaks loose", here we go again.
Acquires Deja Newsgroup Service: Google gets its first real heavy dose of criticism after Deja junkies freak out when Usenet features get lost temporarily after the acquisition. Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads : Perhaps those "featured...
Here's the Dogpile home page from December of 1996 and a USENET announcement from its original developer, Aaron Flin.MORE” Jews For Jesus Sues Google Over Blogger Blog - Jews for Jesus Group Sues Google from Reuters covers Google being sued by...
Here's the Dogpile home page from December of 1996 and a USENET announcement from its original developer, Aaron Flin.MORE” Jews For Jesus Sues Google Over Blogger Blog - Jews for Jesus Group Sues Google from Reuters covers Google being sued by...
Up until last year, Google Groups was one of the most complete archives of the venerable Usenet, with more than 1 billion posts going back to 1981. In December 2004, Google allowed users to add their own groups, blurring the line between Usenet and...
I also did a bit of research and found some early posts about Yahoo in the Usenet archive and elsewhere. to the comp.infosystems.www.misc group. David Filo is scheduled to speak at a Software Forum Internet Special Interest Group.
Jerry Yang Alerts a Usenet group to the Yahoo Database (9/21/94) Slashdot has a thread about a "new" timeline from Google that highlights interesting and historic posts from their 20 year Usenet (aka Google Groups) archive.
Google Groups is one of the largest and easiest to use archives of the Usenet, the blogosphere's granddaddy that's been around since the early 1980s. Martin Schoffstal, President of PSI, Inc.at the time, the largest provider of Internet access in...
Jerry Yang Alerts a Usenet group to the Yahoo Database (9/21/94) On the heels of today's SearchDay article: Search Memories, some of you might enjoy reminsicing about the "early days" by taking a look at a collection of early search engine...
Ability to receive Usenet discussion posts via email. Google Groups, launched in March 2001 after the acquisition of Deja, had been a service allowing people to search and post to Usenet discussion areas.
Ability to receive Usenet discussion posts via email. The beta site also enhances the ability to interact with Usenet groups. Google Groups, launched in March 2001 after the acquisition of Deja, had been a service allowing people to search and post...
Google's collection of 6 billion items comprises 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages. See Also: An independent review of this platform and its features...
Many of the earlier services were projects created by individuals, quietly announced in Usenet newsgroup postings. A group of computer scientists from Rutgers University founded Teoma in April 2000, determined to build a search engine that looks at...
As proof of this, the Register says this is what happened to Usenet posts after Google "acquired Usenet groups" from Deja. First of all, Google didn't acquire Usenet groups -- no one owns Usenet groups, any more than anyone owns the web.
Martijn Koster, Aliweb's creator, announced the system to the comp.infosystems.www Usenet newsgroup on November 30, 1993. Announcing ALIWEB http://snipurl.com/dts Aliweb's creator, Martijn Koster, announces his new web search service to the comp...
Graham Spencer's Usenet post Announcing Excite http://groups.google.com/groups? One evening at Rosita's Taqueria in Redwood City, CA, the group's Graham Spencer suggested they build a search engine, because information retrieval seemed like the...
One person posting about iGetNet on Usenet noted that some traffic might come from pop under windows, rather than via keyword navigation. However, we have implemented a quality control group that calls each reseller multiple times each month as a...
One person posting about iGetNet on Usenet noted that some traffic might come from pop under windows, rather than via keyword navigation. However, we have implemented a quality control group that calls each reseller multiple times each month as a...
Mauldin announced the service to the comp.infosystems.announce Usenet Newsgroup, the crawler had amassed more than 390,000 documents in its index. Mauldin's original announcement to the comp.infosystems.announce Usenet Newsgroup.
The geeks who saved Usenet Salon, Jan.http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/index.html Behind the scenes about how Google managed to restore 20 years of Usenet posts. By Danny Sullivan Editor, Search Engine Watch http...
