11 Facts About Google Groups

Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests.

The Groups service provides a gateway to Usenet newsgroups via a shared user interface.

Google Groups became operational in February 2001, following Google's acquisition of Deja's Usenet archive.

Google Groups allows any user to freely conduct and access threaded discussions, via either a web interface or e-mail.

Google Groups mistakenly restored previously "nuked" messages at one point, angering many users.

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Since May 2014, European users can request to have search results for their name from Google Groups, including their Usenet archive, delinked under the right to be forgotten law.

In February 2001, Google acquired Deja News and its archive, and transitioned its assets to groups.

In 2008, Google broke the Groups search functionality and left it nonfunctional for about a year, until a Wired article spurred the company to fix the problems.

Several years from May 2010 onward, Google Groups incrementally changed the layout of the web search results pages, often degrading the discoverability of the site itself as well as its usability and functionality.

Google Groups was blocked in Turkey on April 10,2008, by a court order.

Google Groups was the first of several websites to be blocked by the Turkish government in rapid succession solely for including material that allegedly offended Islam.