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I tried it and went down several rabbit holes while doing so. Used up my
25 free searches (only same day limitation). But I'll be back. And
definitely better than what Google had set up.
On 9/9/2026 1:39 AM, Thomas Prufer wrote:
Took this for a quick test drive: I think it works better than the Google offering...
Thomas Prufer
On Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:12:18 GMT, in alt.folklore.computers Craig Stadler <cstadler18@hotmail.com> wrote:
I spent the last year gathering and normalizing as many resources for
Usenet messages and built a search engine over public Usenet
discussions going back to 1981. Posting here because this seemed like
the one group that would actually care.
https://www.usenet-rewind.com/
Since Google Groups stopped indexing new Usenet content a
while back, and search over its historical archive has always been
rough- I wanted something that treats this as a real research
archive -- full-text search, date-range/filtering,etc and most
importantly as much Usenet data as possible going back as far as I could
find.
The index currently holds (to date) roughly 980 million messages and is
still growing. Sources are archival backups, data donations, and ongoing
crawls of several thousand still-active public NNTP servers. Binary and
yEnc-encoded content is stripped where possible to keep the index
focused on text.
The index was built using Apache Solr 10, MariaDB 12 (rocksdb), Ubuntu
22.04.5 LTS & custom Python scripts, all on nvme disk.
This is public archival content, same legal basis as DejaNews and
Google Groups before it. There's a removal process for anyone who
wants their own posts taken down, and author contact info is masked
by default.
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