Google News Archive

The archive went live on June 6, 2006, after Google acquired PaperofRecord.com, originally created by Robert J. Huggins and his team at Cold North Wind, Inc. The acquisition was not publicly announced by Cold North Wind until 2008.

While the service initially provided a simple index of other web pages, on September 8, 2008, Google News began to offer indexed content from scanned newspapers.{{cite web |title=Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time|url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/bringing-history-online-one-newspaper.html|date=September 8, 2008 |access-date=2008-09-08 }} The depth of chronological coverage varies.

Newspapers were thought to have escaped copyright obligations of news articles because of Google's method of publishing the archives as searchable image files of the actual newspaper pages, rather than as pure text of articles.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

In 2011, Google announced that it would no longer add content to the archive project.{{cite news |title=Google Ending Newspaper Archiving Project |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385664,00.asp |newspaper=PC Magazine |date=May 20, 2011 |access-date=2011-05-20 |first=Leslie |last=Horn}} On August 14, 2011, without notice, Google made the News Archives home page unavailable. Apparently, the service merged with Google News.[http://www.netforlawyers.com/content/google-news-archive-search-integrated-news-search-advanced-search-0032 "Google Integrates News Archive Search Into Current News Search, Weakens Archive Search"]. Internet for Lawyers Carly Carlioi, an editor at the Boston Phoenix, speculated that Google discontinued the project because they found it harder than expected, for newspapers were more difficult to index than books because of layout complexities.{{cite news |work=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/google-shuts-down-newspaper-archive-project/239239/ |title=Google Shuts Down Newspaper Archive Project |author=Jared Keller |date=May 20, 2011}} Another cause might have been that the project attracted a lesser audience than expected.

While archived newspapers{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers|title=Google News Archive Search}} are still available for browsing, keyword searching is not fully functional. On December 16, 2013, Google News employee Stacie Chan wrote in the Google Product Forums that Google News is "performing a much needed facelift on our News Archive search function", and that access to archived stories would be limited for several months while "this new system" is being built.{{cite web |first=Stacie |last=C. |title=Google News Archive update|url=https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/news/Gl23RwnTIlg/aAGakhzIe_cJ |publisher=Google Product Forums |date=December 16, 2013 |access-date=2013-12-17 }} This was reaffirmed on May 22 and July 30, 2014, when Chan wrote that Google is still "working on the archives to provide a better user experience",{{cite web |first=Stacie |last=C. |title=Google News Archive Search update...|url=https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/news/d_ZWZCTSWfc/RFjemwjUIqwJ |publisher=Google Product Forums |date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=2014-05-22 }} and "it's in the works",{{cite web |first=Stacie |last=C. |title=Google News Archive Search update...|url=https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/news/archive$20timeline/news/LrLLBZ-jjFA/8Ox4-Kwt7LEJ |publisher=Google Product Forums |date=August 10, 2014 |access-date=2014-08-10 }} and again on December 18, 2014, when Chan wrote that Google "is currently working on creating a better experience on the Newspaper Archives that should be available in the near future."{{cite web |first=Stacie |last=C. |title=Google News Archive Search update...|url=https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/news/Fw2caKy67LM/YZHQD_37kT4J |publisher=Google Product Forums |date=December 18, 2014 |access-date=2015-06-23 }}

Some papers formerly included in the News Archive have been removed because of copyright issues. For instance, the archives of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel disappeared on August 16, 2016, due to a contract between the paper's owner, the Gannett Company, and NewsBank.{{cite web|url=http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2016/08/19/journal-sentinel-archive-disappears/|title=Journal Sentinel Archive Disappears|last=Takach|first=Michail|publisher=Urban Milwaukee|date=August 19, 2016|access-date=2016-08-20}}

• List of online newspaper archives – extensive world-wide list of free and pay websites
• List of Google products

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• [https://news.google.com/newspapers Official Google digitized newspapers site]
• [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/ Digitized newspapers] at the Library of Congress
• [https://archive.org/details/newspapers Digitized newspapers] at the Internet Archive

News Archive

Category:American news websites

Category:Online archives of the United States

Category:Internet properties established in 2006

Category:Newspaper archives