On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:26:08 -0500, phorbin
wrote:

In article ,
says...

I assure you Google will maintain Groups only so long as they can
monetize it in some way. They have been derelict in their initial
promises to maintain old Deja as an archive and continue such a
function once they took it over

They blew the whole database to hell when they tried to import it.

Those of us who had email accounts on Deja (once Dejanews; a superior archive
that threaded posts as a newsreader does) received an embarrassed note from
google saying that they'd lost it all.

I had the impression at the time that google didn't want to give the data room
on their servers.

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They actually held it together decently the first few years and had a
semi-decent search capability.

I do not think anything was lost by accident, I truly believe they
wanted to shift Usenet, which actually had a few posters in those
days, to Google Groups, so made Usenet less and less usable. Google
had and has enough storage for anything it can make a profit from.

But what do I know? I was just an observer.