[Web4lib] addendum to Re: Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search

[Dan Ream]

I meant to add that the "timeline" feature at the bottom of the Advanced 
News Archive Search page at
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search  does sort by date, 
but does not allow limiting to free publications only.

--Dan Ream
   Virginia Commonwealth University Library

Dan Ream wrote:
> In Archive Advanced Search  at 
> http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search
> you can limit to "no price" (which seems here to mean "free").
>
> I tried a search for "Phillies" and got what appears to be a 
> relevance-ranked result--no option seen for sorting by date.
> The latest articles are from July, 2006  and the oldest of the first 
> 50 or so was Time magazine from December, 1943.
>
> Sources included in the free results  (and whose full-text I verified) 
> included CNN, USA Today, Time magazine (back to 1943), ESPN, San Diego 
> Union, San Francisco Chronicle (who, on their own web site, offer free 
> full text back to 1995),
> St. Petersburg Times, Newsweek, Sporting News (which says 
> "subscription' by its link, but gives free full-text anyway).
>
> Interesting, but way far less than our subscription databases have to 
> offer.
>
> -- Dan Ream
>    Virginia Commonwealth University Library
>    Richmond, Virginia
>
> Schlosser, Melanie Brynn wrote:
>> I found the same thing.  I was excited to be able to search on 
>> historical events and read about them as they were perceived at the 
>> time. When I did a search, however, (on the Johnstown flood - don't 
>> ask me why, it just came to mind) I found that the only freely 
>> available articles were ones published in the last few years. Since 
>> no one writes about the flood much anymore, I didn't end up with any 
>> relevant hits. I still think it's a great feature if you're seriously 
>> researching something and are willing to pay for articles. As far as 
>> casual browsing goes, however, it's a little disappointing.
>>
>> Melanie Schlosser
>> Indiana University
>>
>> Quoting Leslie Johnston <johnston at virginia.edu>:
>>
>>>
>>>> Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty
>>>> decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not
>>>> previously available via the search engine.
>>>>
>>>> "The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore
>>>> how history unfolded," said Anurag Acharya, Google distinguished
>>>> engineer, who played a major role in shepherding the new product.
>>>>
>>>> Google has partnered with news organizations including Time, The
>>>> Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Guardian and the
>>>> Washington Post, and aggregators including Factiva, LexisNexis,
>>>> Thomson Gale and HighBeam Research, to index the full-text of
>>>> content going back 200 years.
>>>>
>>>> Archived news results can be found in three ways. You can search the
>>>> news archives directly through a new
>>>> <http://news.google.com/archivesearch/>News Archive Search page.
>>>> News archive results are also returned when you search on Google
>>>> News or do a general Google web search and your query has relevant
>>>> historical news results.
>>>>
>>>> Both free and fee-based content is included in Archive Search, with
>>>> content from both publishers and aggregators. Search results
>>>> available for a fee are labeled "pay-per-view" or with a specific
>>>> price indicated. Google does not host this content; clicking on a
>>>> link for fee-based content takes you to the content owner or
>>>> aggregator's web site where you must complete the transaction before
>>>> gaining access to the content.
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3623345
>>>
>>> By far, the lion's share of what I found was for-fee or restricted by
>>> subscription, not free.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------
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>>> Head, Digital Access Services
>>> University of Virginia Library
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