Google News Archive Running (For Now)
April 7, 2014
The article titled Search 60 Million Scanned Newspaper Pages on Gizmo’s Freeware refers to Google’s abandoned project to digitize a bulk of newspapers for its Google News Archive (related to Google News.) That project went live in 2006 but since the announcement in 2011 that Google would not be adding more content, the site has been on and offline. In spite of this, the article notes,
“However, the results of its original efforts are still online, in the form of a searchable archive of 60 million pages from some of the world’s best-known newspapers (and some little-known ones too). The scans go right back to the 1800s, and offer a fascinating glimpse into the past. So if you’re into history, or just curious to see whether anyone you know was mentioned in a newspaper in recent years, head to http://news.google.com/newspapers and see what you can find.”
What they forget to mention is to do it now if you want to at all. Who knows how long it will be available? In the meantime, it offers an inexhaustible resource of oddities, human interest stories and history lessons from countless newspapers. If you are confused by the results, check out the Google support page, which has some instructions on searching for articles within a specific date range.
Chelsea Kerwin, April 07, 2014
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