Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives


Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers' historic
archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and
eventually on the papers' own Web sites, the company said Monday.

The new program expands a two-year-old service that allows Google News
users to search the archives of some major newspapers and magazines,
including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Time, that were
already available in digital form. Readers will be able to search the
archives using keywords and view articles as they appeared originally
in the print pages of newspapers.

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