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Wednesday, September 6, 2006

200 years of news, Googled

Source: Screenwerk

Google News just launched News Archive Search, putting over 200 years of history in the news at your fingertips. It's a treasure trove for history enthusiasts and researchers. Try these...

The McCarthy Hearings, Wilma Rudolph, Viet Nam War, Donald Rumsfeld, Kurt Cobain

While Google has made newspapers "famously ambivalent" over the years, today's launch turns Google into the "newspaper fee-based archive’s best friend." Google is not taking a cut of any of the revenue generated. While fee-based archives are available at each source, aggregating them together makes it possible to expose archive material more effectively than ever before, and to a wider audience.

The Boston Globe archives are a part of this project as well as Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Lexis/Nexis and Factiva and more.