Google has started a project to scan old newspapers and make the content available online.
The ad-supported project will see Google scanning millions of pages of news archives, including photos, articles, headlines, and advertisements.
Google will make cash from modern advertisements visible on the right edge of the screen.
Writing in his bog, Google product manager Punit Soni said that, around the globe, there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written.
He said it was Google's goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily.
The results of Google's project initially will be available through the Google News Archive site, Soni said.
Over time more articles will be scanned and Google will start blending these archives into our main search results so that when you search Google.com, you'll be searching the full text of these newspapers as well.
So far the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, The Evening Independent of St Petersburg, the St. Petersburg Times, The Tryon News, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have signed up for the project.
Story source:
theinquirer.net.
