Google to Expand Online Newspaper Archive

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2008 - 10:42am.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has announced plans to expand the newspaper content available via its Google News Archive service, and is offering to digitize the archives of any interested publisher.

The company has been working with partners including The New York Times and Washington Post since 2006 to digitize their archives, and while Google did not provide a full list of new partners, it did say that ProQuest and Heritage, along with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, St. Petersburg Times and Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph are now participating.

The archived newspapers will appear in Google's archives exactly as they did in print, maintaining all of the photographs and advertising.

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http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Published in DMW Daily, September 9, 2008

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Comments

Newspaper Archives should be free

Submitted by David (not verified) on December 25, 2008 - 2:15pm.

I hope as Google expands their news archives content that they are able to keep most (all!) of it free. There's a lot of free newspaper archive content already available around the world, as detailed at XooxleAnswers' Newspaper Archive pages: http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx Unfortunately, many publishers are trying overly hard to monetize their archive content, which simply cuts off these important historical resources from ready use.

I think Google is

Submitted by Mayio Seo (not verified) on January 8, 2009 - 6:52am.

I think Google is anticipating the monetization of free online archiving in the near future. It's either they'll ride on it, or they stand alone as a free service provider. Either way, it's still a big and viable business.