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> I don't remember many people being upset about Google stepping in I don't remember any former/active usenet user not being upset! Specifically because Deja h
by astrostl 4y ago
> I don't remember many people being upset about Google stepping in
I don't remember any former/active usenet user not being upset! Specifically because Deja had a full archive and robust search, and it was expected that the service would be Googlified into oblivion. Which happened, and even faster than the biggest doomsayers predicted.
- scrollaway 4y agoIn 2001? "Googlified"??? Do you even realize this was Google's first acquisition? Either you're making things up, or you are rewriting history as GP said.
- astrostl 4y agoYes, Googlified - it was not resurrected and operated separately as-was, but immediately stuffed into Google Groups. I and many others considered Google Groups to be vastly worse than Deja News. I even found this subthread because my first instinct was to CMD-F and search for 'deja' when I saw a Groups-related discussion was happening.
- uni_rule 4y agoGoogle still had a broadly positive reputation among technical people in 2011, let alone 2001.
- __d 4y agoMy recollection is that Google of that time still believed its own "Dont' be Evil" mantra, and so did its users. DejaNews was going down, and Google with their buckets of money and great technology stepped in to save it. The initial expectation was that it'd just keep going, maybe with better integration of Usenet content with Google's search (which was a desirable thing, because so much history and detail was locked up in Usenet archives).