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

[Dan Ream]

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 decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not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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>> University of Virginia Library
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