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Comments: 1 +-   Google to digitize millions of old newspaper pages-> on Monday September 08 2008, @02:23PM hhavensteincw

Submitted by hhavensteincw on Monday September 08 2008, @02:23PM
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hhavensteincw writes "Google on Monday detailed news plans to digitize millions of newspaper pages with articles, photographs and headlines intact so they can be accessed and searched online. "Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written," Google said in a blog post . "It's our goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily." For example, Google noted the availability of an original article from the Post-Gazette from 1969 about the landing on the moon."
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  • I've been getting more and more use in the past year of so from the New York Times since their own search engine now reaches back to the 1880's. And I'm delighted about that. On a personal basis I will be even happier to have much vaster archives online.

    But I worry, since ads run alongside access to those old articles is one of the only ways that old-line newspapers have of making money online from their content. With classifieds dying and much more superficial web-dedicated content dominating current pub
Time sure flies when you don't know what you're doing.