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Google Making More Old Newspapers Searchable, Viewable

Reuters reports:

Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available online, the Internet search leader said on Monday.

In a blog post on the Silicon Valley-based company’s website, Google said it is looking to make old newspapers searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.

Here is an example from the 1969 moon walk.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am and is filed under Newspapers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Google Making More Old Newspapers Searchable, Viewable”

Ky Says:
September 9th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
They don’t seem to have anything available from the Nambour Chronicle & North Coast Advertiser first published in 1903. http://www.nambour-chronicle.com

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