[Web4lib] Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search

[Leslie Johnston]

>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decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not 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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Leslie Johnston
Head, Digital Access Services
University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
johnston at virginia.edu