And now Deja have shed the News and can be reached at http://www.deja.com/. Even the front page now defaults to product search rather than usenet search. One can only presume that products will provide more advertising opportunities than newsgroups posting.

Deja is more than just a free usenet newsgroups and postings searcher and archiver, it also a web-based usenet newsreader that provides features more than a normal newsreader allows.

There are now other free competitors to Deja such as ...