Google, which hosts a popular web search engine, also provides a search engine for Usenet. Using it I can discover in less than a minute whether anyone has mentioned my name anywhere in the world any time in the last three days–or weeks, or years–in any of more than thirty thousand newsgroups. If I get a hit, one click brings up the message. If I am the David Friedman mentioned (the process would be easier if my name were Myron Whirtzlburg), and if the message requires an answer, a few more clicks put my response in the same thread of the same newsgroup, where almost everyone who read the original post will see it. It is as if, when anyone slandered me anywhere in the world, the wind blew his words to me and my answer back to the ears of everyone who had heard them.