Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people who share the same interests. The Group service also provides a gateway to the Usenet newsgroup through a shared user interface.
The Google Group began operations in February 2001, following the acquisition of the Deja Usenet archive by Google. Deja News has been in operation since 1995.
Google Groups allows each user to freely perform and access threaded discussions, either via the web interface or email. There are at least two types of discussion groups. The first type is a forum specific to Google Groups, which acts more like a mailing list. The second type is the Usenet group, accessible by NNTP, where Google Groups acts as an unofficial gateway and archive. Google Groups Archive from new Usenet group posting dates back to 1981. Through the Google Groups user interface, users can read and post to the Usenet group.
In addition to accessing Google and Usenet groups, registered users can also manage mailing list archives for e-mail lists hosted elsewhere.
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History
Deja News
The Deja News Research Service is a message archive posted to the Usenet discussion group, beginning in March 1995 by Steve Madere in Austin, Texas. His powerful search engine capabilities won the praise of the service, generated controversy, and significantly changed the nature of perceived online discussion. This archive was acquired by Google in 2001.
While the Usenet discussion archive has been stored for as long as the media exists, Deja News offers a combination of new features. It is available to the general public, provides a simple World Wide Web user interface, enables searching of all archived newsgroups, returns immediate results, and retains unlimited messages. The search facility transforms Usenet from a loose and transitory means of communication into a valuable information store. A relatively permanent archive, combined with the ability to search for messages by authors, raises concerns about privacy and confirms repeated warnings in the past that posters should be careful in discussing themselves and others.
While Madere was initially reluctant to remove archival material, protests from users and legal pressure led to the introduction of "nuking", a method for posters to permanently delete their own messages from search results. It already supports the use of the "X-No-Archive" message headers, which if any will cause the article to be removed from the archive. This does not prevent others from quoting the material in later messages and causing it to be stored. The copyright holder is also allowed to remove material from the archive. According to Humphrey Marr of Deja News, copyright acts most often come from the Church of Scientology.
The ability to install "nuke" remained open for years but was later removed without explanation under Google ownership. Google also mistakenly evokes a "nuked" message at one point, infuriating many users. "Nukes" that applies when Google removes that possibility, is still honorable. Since May 2014, European users may request that search results for their names from Google Groups, including their Usenet archives, be deleted under the right to be forgotten of the law. Google Groups is one of the ten most frequently overlooked sites. If Google does not provide removal, Europe may appeal to their local data protection agency.
Change direction
The service was eventually expanded beyond search. My Deja News offers the ability to read Usenet in traditional chronological ways, per group, and send new messages to the network. The Deja Community is a private Internet forum offered primarily for businesses. In 1999, the site (now known as Deja.com) changed direction sharply and made its main feature as a shopping comparison service. During this transition, which involves server relocation, many old messages in the Usenet archive become unavailable. In late 2000 the company, in financial trouble, sold its shopping service to eBay, which incorporated the technology into their half.com service.
Google Groups
In 2001, Deja search service was closed. In February 2001, Google acquired Deja News and its archives, and transferred its assets to groups.google.com. Users can then access this Usenet newsgroup through the new Google Groups interface.
By the end of 2001, the archive was supplemented with another archive message dating from May 11, 1981. The earliest writings from 1981-1991 were donated to Google by the University of Western Ontario, based on archives by Henry Spencer of the University of Toronto. Moments later, Google released a new version that allows users to create their own non-Usenet groups.
When AOL discontinued access to Usenet around 2005, it recommended Google Groups instead.
In 2008, Google ruined the Group's search functionality and let it not work for about a year, until the Wired article spurred the company to fix the problem.
For several years from May 2010 onwards, Google has gradually changed the layout of web search results pages, often undermining the ability to find the site itself and its usefulness and functionality.
On February 13, 2015, a Media representative story reported that the ability to perform advanced searches across all groups has returned to malfunction, and to date, Google has not corrected or acknowledged the problem. The interviewees stated, "Advanced searches in certain groups seem to work, but they are almost useless for any form of research - be it casual or academic."
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Criticism
The late Lee Rizor, also known as "Blinky the Shark", started the Usenet Improvement Project, a project very critical of Google Groups and its users. The project aims to "make Usenet participation a better experience". They accuse Google Group of neglecting the "escalating spam waves" of its servers and pushing the lasting September of "lusers" and "stingy" to arrive in groups that are massively established. Usenet Improvement Project provides some killfile examples to block messages posted by Google Groups users in some newsreaders.
Slashdot , Wiser and Wired contributors criticize Google for unannounced discontinuations from the Google Groups Advanced Search page and the ability to perform advanced searches across groups, making it virtually impossible to find posts without knowing the keywords from them that are unique across the entire Google Groups decade archive of posts, or knowing ahead of time which newsgroup (s) they posted in. And other commentators since taking down even a lot of simple search in any group that fails repeatedly to return the correct result.
Blocking
Google Groups has been blocked in Turkey since April 10, 2008 by court order there. According to The Guardian , the court prohibited Google Groups after Adnan Oktar's defamation complaint against the service. Google Groups is the first of several websites blocked by the Turkish Government in a row simply because it includes material that allegedly offends Islam.
See also
- GroupSpaces
- MSN Group (closed)
- Windows Live Group (closed)
- Yahoo! Group
- Usenet Newsreader List
- A comparison of Usenet newsreaders
- Web archiving
References
- Langer, Andy (July 14, 1997). "The Post Man Always Saves Twice". Austin Chronicle .
- Macavinta, Courtney; Kornblum, Janet (December 8, 1997). "Deja News joins the antispam war". CNet. Archived from the original on October 26, 2002. CS1 maint: BOT: unknown original url status (link)
- Brown, Janelle (May 24, 1999). "What does it take to spend money from Usenet?". Salon .
- Snead, Hulk (November 27, 2000). "Geekquake, or, I'm Hearing America's Whining". Sucking .
- Naraine, Ryan (December 12, 2000). "eBay Acquires Deja.com Technology". Jupiter Media.
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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