Old newspapers on Internet - Google's new initiative

Internet

Written by Team Josh

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Google in a presee release, said that it wans billions of articles published in newspapers to made available on the Internet. To do that, Google Inc. has undertaken a new project to make archives of the world-famous newspapers available on the Internet. The company is busy signing deal with some of old publication in US.

While big newspapers like The Times and The New York Times have already opened their archives to readers, smaller publications do not have the resources to embark on the labour-intensive process of scanning thousands of editions.

The company also said that it would bear all costs of scanning the archives of any newspapers willing to allow the stories to be shown free on Google's website. According to the firm, a part of the revenue generated from advertising displayed next to the stories will be shared with the participating publishers.

The archive articles will be shown in the same format as they originally appeared, allowing readers to zoom into stories and browse through the rest of the edition.