One thing I've learned this morning, is to focus Google a little better by
putting the date in as a search term, thus eliminating all the stray posts
from last fall/summer. Typing in
"metric 10/feb/2001"
seems to bring up a pretty good listing from a couple days ago.
This is a real pain for me, since I also use Deja for grant solicitations
(Commerce Bus Daily groups) and software tips!
Nat
>
> I tried Deja too and got this from Google; it seems that we will
> get everything
> back, I hope that it will be soon. The only way out is to try
> Google until
> things are right again,
>
> Han
>
>
> Google Inc. has acquired Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service,
> including its
> archive of more than 500 million messages--a terabyte of human
> conversation
> dating back to 1995.
>
> Since reaching agreement with Deja, Google has been working
> non-stop to restore
> access to these messages, which form the largest archive of
> newsgroups on the
> net. While developing a more fully-featured service, Google has
> released a beta
> version that allows high speed, high quality access to newsgroup postings
> already archived by Google since August 2000.
>
> For more information about the transition from Deja to Google,
> please read
> Google's press release.
>
> Note to loyal Deja users:
> Due to time and technical constraints, it is not feasible for Google to
> maintain the interface and feature-set to which you are
> accustomed. We have
> been working hard to make this beta service available while we
> transition to a
> more full-featured offering. We appreciate your understanding and
> patience as
> we add the features you expect (including posting and better browsing).
>
> Nat wrote in USMA 10975:
>
>
> Sad news folks - it looks like Deja's been shut down. I click on
> www.deja.com for morning newsgroup seach, and all I get is something
> fairly useless from Google. Same thing with Hotbot, Altavista, and Yahoo.
>
> Anyone know a replacement?
>
> Nat
>
>
>
>
