[Web4lib] Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search

[Jim Campbell]

It would be nice if News Archive would do as Google Scholar does and provide
links to open URL resolvers.  Google Scholar already has all the data so it
wouldn't be a big deal to implement.  Of course it would cut into the
revenue of their content providers.

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of 
> Schlosser, Melanie Brynn
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:18 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search
> 
> 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 decades worth of historical content, including scads of 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.
> >
> >
> > ------------
> > 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 
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