<story><title>Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference</title><url>http://screengod.blogspot.com/2018/03/newsgroups-i-made-difference.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steuard</author><text>Google Groups was great when they first acquired all those archives! It just got progressively worse and worse over time, and I&amp;#x27;ve never understood why. (Stagnation I could understand, but how did the same searches get &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt; effective?)</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty sad that a bunch of people sent historical Usenet archives to Google, they imported them into Google Groups, and then... basically hid&amp;#x2F;lost access to it over time. I assume the data is in GFS somewhere but it may never see the light of day. But maybe we just need to shame them every decade: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;usenet&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;usenet&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erik_seaberg</author><text>Google has a continual Red Queen&amp;#x27;s race between everyone&amp;#x27;s dependencies. I&amp;#x27;m guessing they were lucky to keep it &lt;i&gt;mostly&lt;/i&gt; working and avoid Reader&amp;#x27;s fate.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re deprecating X, please migrate to Y by this date.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Y doesn&amp;#x27;t support all our use cases!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Neither will X when we turn it off, sorry.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference</title><url>http://screengod.blogspot.com/2018/03/newsgroups-i-made-difference.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steuard</author><text>Google Groups was great when they first acquired all those archives! It just got progressively worse and worse over time, and I&amp;#x27;ve never understood why. (Stagnation I could understand, but how did the same searches get &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt; effective?)</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty sad that a bunch of people sent historical Usenet archives to Google, they imported them into Google Groups, and then... basically hid&amp;#x2F;lost access to it over time. I assume the data is in GFS somewhere but it may never see the light of day. But maybe we just need to shame them every decade: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;usenet&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2009&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;usenet&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>I get that Google essentially walked back from an at least implied role as an information archivist. But I still don&amp;#x27;t really get why they so completely abandoned things like Google Groups given the truly minuscule resources to maintain them at some low level.</text></comment>