> Deja News could have ended up anywhere, including at the Internet Archive. This is exactly what I'm talking about. The idea that a company that is falling ap

> Deja News could have ended up anywhere, including at the Internet Archive. This is exactly what I'm talking about. The idea that a company that is falling apart and selling itself off in pieces was going to donate one of its last major assets to charity... I don't even know where to start. That was the whole problem. Running the archive wasn't a business (at least deja.com never figured out how to make it one and eventually gave up trying), but the archive ended up in the hands of investors and/or creditors that didn't care about that. You may be partially right - if Google hadn't bought them someone else might have (maybe Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, or ...). I'm not sure about that (which is why the Google deal was good news at the time), but let's suppose you're right. All that would mean is that you would have ended up complaining about how some other buyer ran it into the ground. If you're going to make the case that Google got in the way of the Deja News archive's happy ending, you need a lot more than that.