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How did it profit from the Usenet archives? Genuinely curious. Dejanews was the seed material for Google Groups, any profit derived from that (ads) was from co
by goatinaboat 6y ago
How did it profit from the Usenet archives? Genuinely curious.
Dejanews was the seed material for Google Groups, any profit derived from that (ads) was from content posted to Usenet by people who never intended for it to be used for that.
- joshuamorton 6y agoGroups doesn't (and didn't ever?) Show ads as far as I know. So you're reaching for second or third order effects at best.
- mtkd 6y agoYou think that realtime ad impressions is all they get from you reading granular forum posts? Sadly, even in 2020, nothing has yet replaced what Deja was at the time it got acquired and destroyed.
- joshuamorton 6y ago> So you're reaching for second or third order effects at best. I'm curious what second or third order effects you think a usenet archive had on GG.
- mtkd 6y agoFrom G side they gained users interacting with 50K+ topics and occasionally posting views, sentiment etc. (and likely all Deja News historic interactions) In addition to the search history, email content, geo location etc. G have for many people
- happycube 6y agoDeja did a fairly good job at destroying itself beforehand - not just financially.