"Millions of messages posted on electronic bulletin boards over the past 20 years have been saved from digital oblivion."

Stefanie Olsen's article: "Deja.com, a popular newsgroup search service, has been hit with glitches after its buyout this week by Web search provider Google, ruffling the feathers of some longtime customers."

Enables users to search and browse the Usenet archives which consist of over 700 million messages, and post new comments.

Simplifies Google Groups' URLs for easier inclusion in e-mails/posts/web pages. With bookmarklet.

Susan Stellin's article: "Being able to search archived postings online raises questions about the implications of increasingly sophisticated search technology."

Richard W. Wiggins' article: "Since the February acquisition, Google has restored some of the lost searching functionality, and the company also says that by mid-May users of the Google Usenet index will have the ability to post new messages."

Jay Lyman's article: "The Google Groups Usenet archive takes surfers on a two-decades-long ride through the early history of the Internet - before there was a World Wide Web."

Finally, you can post Usenet messages at Google.

"To the delight (and possible consternation) of old-school Usenet fans, Web search site Google has restored more than 650 million individual messages dating back to 1995 that were acquired from New York-based Deja.com."

Google, a provider of search technology, announced that it has integrated the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by Deja.com with recent posts to provide complete access to Usenet data since 1995.

"Geek-beloved search site Google has fully recovered from last year's public relations gaffe by giving Internet historians exactly what they wanted and more: the most comprehensive collection of Usenet posts available on the Internet."