Digitizing History – One Newspaper At A Time
Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives
says the Google Blog.
With Google News Archive Search, users would be search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time, along with a historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically generated timeline.
I wonder how the results are sorted – for instance, a search for Elvis Presely throws up an Aug 1, 2003 article from the New York Times as the first result, and a search for Charles marries Diana throws up a Washington Post article dated Feb 10, 2005 entitled “Charles & Camilla to Wed” as the first result.
I guess it could still use some tweaking.
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