Google Plans To Launch News Archive
Posted on: Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 09:30 CDT
Google Inc. is expanding its newspaper section to include billions of articles published in the past. The company hopes adding articles from as far back as 244 years will lure even more traffic to its search engine.
The new project extends Google’s campaign to make digital copies of information created before the Internet’s arrival.
Google will foot the bill to copy the archives of any newspaper willing to allow the stories to be displayed for free on the Google website. The participating newspapers will receive a percentage of the revenue generated by advertisements appearing next to the stories.
Google is promoting the new program as a way to give people easier access to history, and to provide newspaper publishers with a needed financial boost to offset declining revenue lost to online news sources.
"I believe this could be a turning point for the industry," said Pierre Little, publisher of the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. "This helps us unlock a bit of an asset that had just been sitting within the organization."
Others newspapers that have agreed to new project include the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. All the initial newspaper partners for the program are located in the US and Canada.
"The goal is no different than Google Book Search," said company spokesman Gabriel Stricker, referring to a project where Google has committed millions of dollars to make copies of books and other materials kept in libraries across the world. The company is currently in a legal battle over copyright infringement due to the book-copying program.
The New York Times and Washington Post both gave Google access to their electronic news archives, but most searches only revealed snippets of these articles and required readers to pay to view the entire article.
The newspaper archives on Google will be free, and will be presented in the same way they appeared in print said Adam Smith, Google’s product management director.
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Posted by Clorfex on 09/09/2008, 10:44 grats to google, great idea |
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