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Most of the regular people here know that Google has taken over the Deja archives of newsgroups.

The question was raised recently what is/was Deja.

All of the newsgroup postings are archived and can be found in the Deja newsgroup archives. Deja was falling apart after trying to do things other than what they originally did -- archive newsgroups and provide a fairly respectable Boolean search engine.

Falling apart meant that instead of having 8 years of archives with a promise to add entries back to 1985 (??) they fouled up and had no archives, then 1 week, then 1 month, finally after about a year they had back to May 19, 1999 plus some random previous postings. Nowhere near what there used to be. Since we relied on older postings to research problems this was a terrible loss of information.

You can get an idea of what was available in the search engine by looking at http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm since you won't see it at the new Google
    "Usenet Advanced Search"
    http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
which does not allow you to use a Boolean search with mixed use of AND(&), OR(|), NEAR(^), and parentheses. Google has promised to give back some advanced search but in the meantime has taken all of this away. You can read the Google Press release at
    http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html
where they indicate that the acquisition provides Google with Deja's entire Usenet archive (dating back to 1995).

Old D.e.j.a article numbers are now assimulated into Google

My Excel Macros (this site) has a lot of references to articles that were archived by article # which no longer worked after Google took over Deja on Feb 12, 2001.&nsp; That has been rectified and Google can now retreive articles also by their Deja Article (May 3, 2001) numbers though I do not see this documented.  See my xlindex.htm

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