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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Monday, February 12, 2001 Blogs | Subscribe | Interviews | Events | Films | Book Blog Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Google Acquires Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service Google Inc., a search engine, 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. Google has moved the Deja.com service to: http://groups.google.com and is providing a temporary search tool which allows users access to information contained in the last six months (since August 2000) of Usenet newsgroup postings and message threads. Google's Usenet Search is currently in beta testing and a faq is available for concerned Usenet searchers. When the full Deja Usenet archive is added (back to 1995), Google says users will be able to search and browse more than 500 million archived messages. Google also plans to 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 Google search engine serves 70 million searches per day, with approximately half of these searches performed on the company's homepage. Google also offers custom search service products and currently licenses its search technology to more than 120 companies in 30 countries. Related Links: · Google.com · Google's Usenet Search · Other Online Search Engines Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.