Dejanews

From: Rich Lafferty <rich_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Mon Feb 12 16:00:08 2001

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:25:16PM -0600, John Foust (jfoust_at_threedee.com) wrote:
> At 01:08 PM 2/12/01 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >Oh, great. An already bad weekend ends up even worse. Now the
> >www.deja.com/=dnc/ trick no longer works, at least it isn't as advertising
> >heavy as standard DejaNews had become.
>
> Given Google's success and roots, I'd say this is a good
> thing. I bet a doughnut they extend the archives deeper
> into the past.

They've promised exactly that; they bought the whole thing, and
<URL:http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html> notes
that they're bringing the whole thing online, in the first couple of
paragraphs. Indexing a few terabytes of data seems an excusable reason
to not have it ready right away :-)

  -Rich

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