Posted on Sunday, September 14 2008 @ 7:51 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
One of Google's latest projects is the digitizing of old newspapers. CNET
writes the search king aims to make millions of newspaper pages searchable:
Under the ad-supported effort, Google will digitize millions of pages of news archives, including photos, articles, headlines, and advertisements, Google said.
"Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written. And it's our goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily," said product manager Punit Soni in a blog posting about the effort. "The problem is that most of these newspapers are not available online. We want to change that."
The newspapers will be available at Google's
News Archive Search.
