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Google Makes Old Newspapers Available Online

by Terrence O'Brien on September 10, 2008 at 08:44 AM

Google Makes Old News Papers Available Online
Google is continuing its march towards becoming the source for all the world's information.The search giant is expanding a program it launched in 2006 with the cooperation of The New York Times and The Washington Post to share those newspaper's archives. Now, Google is indexing and digitizing papers from around the country, including smaller local papers, which often don't have digital archives available online.

Now news junkies, researchers, and nostalgic Internet users can dig up old issues of their local paper without having to go down to their local library and break out the mircrofiche.

The papers are scanned and reproduced in PDF format and available in Google's online reader in their original format, complete with images and advertisements. The archives are currently relatively small -- not much more than the aforementioned dailies from New York and DC -- but Google plans to vastly expand its vault of digital papers and eventually incorporate them into its broader Google Web search so that when you search Google, you'll be searching the complete text of the new digital news archives. [From: The Official Google Blog]

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