Posted on 09/06/2006 8:24:59 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Internet giant Google Inc., is expected to announce that it will offer a free archive service enabling Internet users to search for printed articles back to the 1700s, US newspapers reported.
Called Google News Archive Search, the service will direct users to both paid and free content on publishers' Web sites, but will not generate revenues for Google itself, The New York Times said.
"Were not focusing on monetization yet," Anurag Acharya, a Google engineer who helped develop the service was quoted as saying by the Times on Wednesday. "This is new territory for us."
The company was working with several partners in the new service including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale, the daily said.
Some of the partners had been pressing Google to offer access to their archives for several years, The New York Times added.
The news archive also includes articles that Google has indexed from the Web without formal arrangements with their partners, The Wall Street Journal said.
The service will allow searches for news articles reaching back to the 1700s, said the Journal.
Time magazine, it added, will provide free access through Google to its archives dating back to its founding in 1923; The New York Times will offer searches back to 1981, but by next year it hopes to have digitized articles dating back to the 1850s.
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going back 300 years? :P
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
The company was working with several partners in the new service including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale, the daily said.
Valid points.
Interesting! I assume they had to go back that far to include stories on when the Democrats were rational, and rooted for America.
Excuse the venom. I used to be a Democrat, and I know from whence I speak.
Thanks for the pings.
How will we know real history from "laundried" history?
This still won't pick up Helen Thomas's birth notice.
I think that's on a cave wall somewhere.
At least it will be nice to various sides of the news from the mainstream media, for a change. (I mean newspapers from 40+ years ago.)
Can anyone say "Revisionist History"?
You can find things like this
I found this article about 5,000 to 10,000 white men not being allowed to take the test for firemen in 1994.
"Daily News of Los Angeles - NewsBank - Mar 6, 1994That's in the consent decree, and it meant that last month from 5000 to 10000 white applicants were excluded from the test. Because the department was ... "
Many times I wanted to quote this article on FR, but I could never find verification that my memory of it was accurate.
Really cool. I'm glad to see google will be doing this.
It will be interesting.
Google has a book service, too. I have found mostly older books, but for research and historical purposes, it's a great resource.
My post was worded badly, I meant that I have wanted to reference that 1994 newspaper article in my posts to FR threads.
The article itself was probably never posted to FR.
We will not be satisfied until all history is available interactively. And, correct history, none of this cited expert stuff.
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