Another week, another exciting press release from Google. The latest announcement sees the launch of the Google News Archive search service. More from BBC News
…The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online content. People using the search are shown results from both free and subscription-based news outlets. Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New York Times and the Guardian from the UK.
…The launch of the news archive search extends Google’s influence over how the world’s information is indexed, searched and accessed.
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According to online research firm Nielsen/NetRatings, more than 380 million people used the search engine every month in 2005. The earliest known searchable story is, he said, from “somewhere in the mid-1700s” - considerably older than the current 30-day archive offered through Google News.
The service is accessed through the news archive website or the Google news page. It is also activated when it can provide relevant results to a user’s search on google.com.
Story via BBC News
It would be exciting to see if we can pass date queries from Padova to this archive, in the same way that we currently pass people queries to Google Scholar. I also propose again that we consider passing date queries to the BBC ‘On This Day‘ and ‘The Time When ‘ services to offer our users a range of supporting resources for their own timeline of interest.
September 12th, 2006 at 14:56
Google require a keyword as well as a date - i.e. you must request ‘John Humphreys’ between 04/26/2004 and 04/28/2004 rather than just ‘any stories between 04/26/2004 and 04/28/2004′ - so an ‘on this day’ function isn’t possible unless it’s linked with an arbitrary keyword, such as a name - is this what you mean?
September 12th, 2006 at 15:18
Cheers Graeme - What about the BBC ‘On This Day’ and ‘The Time When’ services? Maybe they would take date only queries?