Examples of use of Usenet
1. According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, "There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress."
2. But searching web text was not enough for Google, which says its mission is "to organise the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful". It started to search images and other documents; it also added a directory, Deja.com‘s database of Usenet posts, mail order shopping catalogues, a news service and, most recently, books and scholarly papers.