Talk:Deja News

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Wasn't DejaNews called something else before that? Damned if I can remember, but I'm pretty sure it started with an S. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 16:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

You may be thinking of SIFT, aka the Stanford Netnews Filtering Service. It did offer Web-based search at some point, but was a rather different animal. When Deja started, SIFT was basically an email-based clipping service. That all died out a long time ago, reference.com (t was inreference.com before that) is more or less its successor. --iMb~Meow 16:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I dug up a little bit, InReference started doing Web-based search in 1997. [1] --iMb~Meow 17:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Not what I was thinking of. It was a service that was initially free, then I believe went partial subscription, then turned into or got bought by DejaNews. I think it had a non-relevant name (a la Yahoo). I think "Super" was part of the name. Like I said, I'm really at a loss here to come up with anything more convincing than my own shoddy memory. This would have been circa 1995. Oh well. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 19:03, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
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