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Deja news (long form: Deja news Research service, briefly often also pulled together DejaNews or Dejanews) was from 1995 to 2001 a Website to the search of Usenet articles on archives of most text newsgroup at that time. The operator company was called Deja news Inc. The name Deja news alludes probably to the term vu, from the French for already seen.

Steve Madere, firm founder of Deja news Inc., placed the Site 1995 in the texanischen Austin for the first time to on-line. With its extensive search possibilities she found, produced controversies to applause and changed the way, how panels were noticed.

Although it had also before already given archives of newsgroup, Deja offered nevertheless a new combination of functions to news: It was accessible to the public, made a user interface available in the Web, which can be served simply, permitted inquiries over all archived groups at the same time, supplied fast results and held articles without restriction forwards (regular new servers delete articles usually after a few weeks). By these possibilities that became Usenet with a mark of loose organized communication medium with a volatile character for a valuable source of information.

The permanent availability combined with the possibility of looking for authors led to controversies discussions about data security and The warning often expressed in the Usenet, one should be careful with what one abandons in articles, got so a special topicality.

The operator Madere was not first ready to remove archived contributions protests from users and the menace of legal steps changed this however. Its Site finally supported the permanent removing from articles (Nuking called, from English ton nuke: with nuclear weapons attack) certain authors, who did not want to be specified.

In addition the X-NO-archives-header was introduced, with which an author in the contribution could please for it to exclude this article from the admission into archives (and/or indicating the article with the search).

The possibility was given in addition to right owners to let articles which contained remove without permission their mental property. According to Humphrey Marr of Deja news was used this most frequently by Scientology sect.

The service of Deja news was finally extended in such a way that it exceeded the pure search according to the articles. With My Deja news one could read contributions in the traditional kind used of the newsreader by groups and chronologically. In addition the possibility was offered of writing also articles. Deja Communities made closed forums possible, what was used particularly by companies.

In the year 1999 the adjustment changed strongly. Deja news was renamed in May in Deja.com and offered above all a service for the comparison of prices. Deja readers should arrange all kinds of products by evaluations, these information again flowed into the recommendations on the Deja Site. During this re-orientation also the servers changed their location, afterwards numerous older articles were no longer available.

Deja began 2000 to fade in advertisement in Usenet articles. Individual terms were also provided hyper+on the left of on the applied Websites. This change came with parts of the Usenet municipality very badly on (see about discussion in the FITUG mailing list).

Toward at the end of of 2000, after the blow-out of the Dotcom blister, the company had financial problems. Risk capital was missing and incomes from advertising was not cost-hitting a corner. One sold the price comparison service at Ebay, which used him on its Site Half.com.

2001 were turned off the Usenet search service. Archives and domains became of the company Google Inc. bought up and as Google Groups again offered. Google had also from other sources of archives had been received and could so for instance 650 million articles offer, which were enough to back in the year 1981, thus briefly after that Usenet at all based.

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