While general relief was expressed at the start-up's acquisition of Deja's Usenet archive, our readers were amazed to discover that they couldn't use the familiar Deja interface. Google had hurriedly knocked up a front-end, CEO Larry Page explained this week, but for many of you that meant a valuable service had been scuppered. Not all of you are critical of Google - the company evidently has much good will from the community, but many of you are angry. I'd say it's worth as a resource is probably incalculable. The ability to employ technology to deliver a usable way to 'shoot the breeze' with the rest of planet is, for me, how the Internet pays for itself in human terms.
Websites are just a useful adjunct.
You hit the nail on the head - it truly felt like being blinded in some way when it went. Google is private company Steve, and we don't think there's a law that criminalizes badly designed web UIs. Not all of you were convinced by Google boss Larry Page's summary on Wednesday, two days into the new beta Google service. Give me 1 slow page rather than 10 fast ones any day. I must admit - for a targeted search, I've just played with the new interface, and find it a lot easier than the old deja setup.