New Promise Microsoft Shuts Downwardly Netscan (Usenet Groups Analytics Tool)

Back inwards 2004, Microsoft unveiled the NetScan tool that scans the postings made on diverse Usenet newsgroups on the Internet.

The role of the tool was to assistance users discovery newsgroups relevant to their interest, larn virtually authors who postal service frequently, rail the threads / topics that are hot too pop on the Internet, etc.

Microsoft Netscan organization has been scanning too collection activeness of all newsgroups since 1999 only unfortunately, things are virtually to change.



Microsoft volition no longer update the Netscan databases starting adjacent calendar month (June 2007) though the sometime information is probable to stay available on the website.

Probably the declining popularity of Usenet newsgroups inwards the recent years (and the rising of Google Groups) forced Microsoft to stimulate got this decision.

Google Groups hosts a web-based archive of Usenet posts dating dorsum to May 1981 that it acquired from Dejanews. Some historical threads similar Linus Torvalds' sharing details of his Linux projection tin also travel read on Google Groups.

Microsoft NetScan | Google Groups Timeline