Media News - Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Google expands search in old newspapers
Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical
newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available
online, the Internet search leader said on Monday. In a blog post on the
Silicon Valley-based company's website, Google said it is looking to
make old newspapers searchable online by partnering with newspaper
publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. The effort
involves the archives of dozens of newspaper titles and expands on a
two-year-old effort by Google to work with two major U.S. newspapers -
The New York Times and Washington Post - to index old papers in Google
News Archive. '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,' Google
product manager Punit Soni said in the blog post. The new papers range
from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 'the first newspaper West of the
Alleghenies' (the Allegheny Mountains), to the Quebec
Chronicle-Telegraph, which has continuously published for 244 years,
making it North America's oldest lasting paper. The initial newspaper
partners for the digital archiving program are located in the United
States and Canada, a spokesman said. (Reuters)
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