Re: [uk-netmarketing] RE: fall of the dotcoms?

[Mark Bunting]

You could still search Usenet through deja.com, and

you still can... until today when Google announced

that it had snapped up the archive:

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html


so bye bye deja. and tomorrow, google's bid for world

domination...


Mark


--- Ashley Pomeroy <

arptermisoc [dot] org

> wrote:

> >>>>But the path they are following is not the one

> they first thought

> of..."<<<<

> 

> Note both Altavista and Deja.com, two search engines

> which decided to

> become multi-internet mega-entertainment portals,

> found out that nobody

> cared, and have now reverted to being search

> engines.

> 

> Particularly galling in the case of Deja.com, as its

> only useful feature

> was the ability to search old Usenet postings,

> something they curtailed in

> order to become a kind of mutant MSN.


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