Google Shuts Down Newspaper Archive Project

Google shut down its service to scan, archive and make searchable newspapers’ pre-Internet archives.

According to the Boston Phoenix:

News Archive was generally a good deal for newspapers — especially smaller ones like ours, who couldn’t afford the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars it would have cost to digitally scan and index our archives — and a decent bet for Google.


Read more: http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2011/05/19/google-abandons-master-plan-to-archive-the-world-s-newspapers.aspx#ixzz1Mv3YOgNy

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