groups_largeWill update this post later, been a bit swamped, but Google relaunched Groups today, with an emphasis on letting folks create their own groups. (Recall this was Usenet for a long time). While the company didn't say it was a driver, Groups will drive more registrations and more content into the core of Google's services. The interface is similar to Gmail. Some info from Google is in the extended entry.

Update: Google Blog posted and then retracted a Google Groups announcement, but the cats over at Slashdot caught it. Slashdot appears to be tearing Google a new one for not supporting search by date and deep linking, among other things. I will check into the deep linking thing, if they don't support that, I am sure it's an oversight. Not supporting deep linking into content that you want as part of the Index is insane. Thanks to reader Brian for the tip.

More on GGroups and all that:

Inside Google
Evan Williams (nice note on Blogger here)

Slashdot (original thread)
Andy
SEWBlog (which notes in another post that "most of Google remains in beta")
Google Blogoscoped

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