Google News Archive
Type of site | Newspaper archive |
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Available in | English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Norwegian, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Turkish, and Malayalam. |
Dissolved | yes |
Created by | |
URL | news |
Registration | Not required |
Launched | June 6, 2006 |
Current status | Scanning project discontinued; search function "facelift" is "in the works" |
Google News Archive is an extension of
Some of the news archives date back to 18th century. There is a timeline view available, to select news from various years.
History
The archive went live on June 6, 2006, after Google acquired
While the service initially provided a simple index of other web pages, on September 8, 2008, Google News began to offer indexed content from scanned newspapers.[1] The depth of chronological coverage varies.
Newspapers were thought to have escaped copyright obligations of news articles because of Google's method of publishing the archives as searchable image files of the actual newspaper pages, rather than as pure text of articles.[citation needed]
In 2011, Google announced that it would no longer add content to the archive project.
While archived newspapers
Some papers formerly included in the News Archive have been removed because of copyright issues. For instance, the archives of the
See also
- List of online newspaper archives– extensive world-wide list of free and pay websites
- List of Google products
References
- ^ "Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time". September 8, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- PC Magazine. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ "Google Integrates News Archive Search Into Current News Search, Weakens Archive Search". Internet for Lawyers
- ^ Jared Keller (May 20, 2011). "Google Shuts Down Newspaper Archive Project". The Atlantic.
- ^ "Google News Archive Search".
- Google Product Forums. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
- Google Product Forums. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
- Google Product Forums. Retrieved 2014-08-10.
- Google Product Forums. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
- ^ Takach, Michail (August 19, 2016). "Journal Sentinel Archive Disappears". Urban Milwaukee. Retrieved 2016-08-20.