Google News Archive Search
Tomi Häsä
http://news.google.com/archivesearch
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
September 8, 2008
"For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have
been conveyed in newsprint -- from revolutions and politics to fashion to
local weather or high school football scores. Around the globe, we
estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever
written. And it's our goal to help readers find all of them, from the
smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily."
"The problem is that most of these newspapers are not available online. We
want to change that."
"Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers
accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers
to digitize millions of pages of news archives."
"Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you'll also be able
to browse through them exactly as they were printed -- photographs,
headlines, articles, advertisements and all."
"You'll be able to explore this historical treasure trove by searching the
Google News Archive or by using the timeline feature after searching
Google News. Not every search will trigger this new content, but you can
start by trying queries like [Nixon space shuttle] or [Titanic located].
Stories we've scanned under this initiative will appear alongside
already-digitized material from publications like the New York Times as
well as from archive aggregators, and are marked "Google News Archive."
Over time, as we scan more articles and our index grows, we'll also start
blending these archives into our main search results so that when you
search Google.com, you'll be searching the full text of these newspapers
as well."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/bringing-history-online-one-newspaper.html