Today, we will able to read old newspapers from Google News. This is officially announced at Google blog today (Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time).
The service allows you explore millions of news archive. Besides that, visitor will able to browse through the newspaper precisely as they were published.
Google already started their efforts working with this service since 2006 and New York Times and Washington Post is amongst the first newspaper they digitized. The good news is, Google also start blending these newspapers into the search result so you can search the old newspaper archives using their search engine.
Here is the sample old newspaper: “WE’RE ON THE MOON” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 July 1969
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3 Comments Received
November 6th, 2008 @ 10:28 PM
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December 3rd, 2008 @ 2:32 AM
Great post, thank you for your effort. I have tried this google news feature and have forgotten about it. Thanks again.
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December 5th, 2008 @ 11:33 AM
That is really cool, great article you picked out too.
Looking at how Armstrong is highlighted, although you cannot cut and paste the text it is still searchable?
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