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Google continues its march towards organizing all the world's information. Just what has it done this time? Google worked with LIFE magazine to digitize and distribute LIFE's enormous archive of photographs, which span over a century and countless cultural, political, scientific sporting, and other historical moments.
Since this was released, we've spent far too much time browsing the archives, and we've found everything from Hitchcock to Billie Holiday, from 'The Third Man' to '2001,' and the historic Lindbergh flight to the Apollo 11 launch. The majority of the photos have titles, descriptions, photographer information, and dates, which makes searching for photos from "World War 2" and "New York," for example, surprisingly easy. You can search by decade, by year, and by pretty much any other search term you can think of. Paul Newman? Check. Dresden, Germany? Got it. Picasso wearing a cow's head mask? Of course!
Currently, there are about 2 million photos indexed and viewable via Google Image Search, but there are plans to eventually add the full 10 million pictures contained in the LIFE vaults. We're impressed with the decision to go with high-resolution images -- nearly everything we've seen looks excellent when blown up to full-screen size.
Considering we didn't grow up when LIFE magazine was at its peak, it's wonderful to be able to see many of these photos in great detail, and apparently many of these remained unpublished until now.
If you've got a few spare hours to set aside, you can get started by visiting the Google/LIFE page here, or add 'source:life' to any of your Google Image Search queries in order to search the Life archives. [From: LIFE photo archive Via: Mashable]
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