To add some context to those not from that era. Dejanews was the only practical way to search USENET at all, so it was effectively a USENET search engine with a crude web client. It was pretty darned crude, but was also much easier than the many NNTP clients. Most people I knew used both pretty effectively as USENET grew.

It was simple and functional, only to be slowly eroded by Google News.

Have no idea where Google News is now. But Dejanews was in many ways a Reddit for that era.