Big snips:

> Google Inc. today announced that it has acquired Deja.com's Usenet
> Discussion Service. This acquisition provides Google with Deja's entire
> Usenet archive (dating back to 1995), software, domain names
> including deja.com and dejanews.com, company trademarks, and other
> intellectual property. Financial terms of this transaction were not
> released.
>
> Available now at http://groups.google.com, this powerful new Usenet
> search feature enables Google users to access the wealth of
> information contained in more than six months of Usenet newsgroup
> postings and message threads.

It goes on to say that all of the archive is being readied for display
and if I know these people its going to be with us "real soon now".

Cheers,

Christian