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Google Partners With Life Magazine

Posted on: Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 11:45 CST

An online photo gallery has been opened by Google Inc. that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.

The new service, which debuted Tuesday, offers about 2 million photos and will scan 10 million from Life's library in the near future.

About 97 percent of Life's photo archives have never been publicly seen.

The photos being shared can be printed for free as long as they are not being used as part of an attempt to make money.  Time Warner Inc., Life's parent company, will offer high-resolution, framed prints, to try and make money.  These prints will be available through Qoop.com

These archives include photographed moments of American history like the Civil War and John F. Kennedy's assassination. 

In an attempt to lure more search engine traffic, Google has been indexing a wide variety of information that previously was not available online.  Since 2004, Google has been scanning millions of books stored in dozens of libraries around the world.

The partnership with Life represents Google's biggest step in professional photography.  R.J. Pittman, director of Google's product management, said the company hopes to work out similar arrangements with the owners of other large photo archives.

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On the Net:

• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Source: redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports

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