Google Scans Historic Newspaper Archives
Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers‘ historic archives to make them searchable; http://is.gd/2nYa
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 08:41 on 9. September 2008 Permalink |
RWW: “Being able to browse through an article in the context of the paper version is a great step forward for researchers. Before, you would either have to dust off old copies in an archive or operate an antiquated microfilm machine (without the ability to do a full-text search, of course).”
pC: “Google’s Punit Soni explains: ‘Not every search will trigger this new content, but you can start by trying queries like [Nixon space shuttle] or [Titanic located]. Stories we’ve scanned under this initiative will appear alongside already-digitized material from publications like the New York Times as well as from archive aggregators, and are marked ‘Google News Archive’. Over time, as we scan more articles and our index grows, we’ll also start blending these archives into our main search results so that when you search Google.com, you’ll be searching the full text of these newspapers as well.’”
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