Google News Archive Search finds both 200-year-old articles

Yesterday (September 6), Google officially launched a new service that allows Internet users to search for print articles, magazines and other printed publications.

Google claims its new service can search the print database and find out more than 200 years old.

The Google News Archive Search service will redirect users to search content publishers' websites - both for free and for a fee. However, Google has not gained any revenue from such site redirection.

Google has yet to reveal how many publishers have joined the company's new service. However, the company also said it had a number of names in the media such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale participated. Join the new service project with Google.

But in fact, Google is completely independent in building a resource database used in the new service. Search results via the Google News Archive Search service will be displayed on a new search page.

Unlike the previous project of publishing books from libraries to the Internet - the project has brought Google many legal collisions with publishers - in the new project, Google partners confirmed they are pushing Google to launch this service to allow readers to access their data storage systems that have been built for years.

The database used in Google's new service was previously called 'dark Web' because this is the data that standard search engines can't find.

' We have asked Google along with some other Internet search providers to index our database search ,' Patrick Spain - CEO of electronic content library HighBeam Research. - affirmative.

' This is a symbol of a new development ,' said Allen Weiner, Gartner's research director. Google has established a good relationship with content providers. This relationship will benefit both sides.

In some cases, the entire database of Time and The Washington Post publications will also be included in Google's new service that allows users to search. For example, Time's database includes 4,300 published publications and 300,000 articles published since 1923 - that is more than 200 years ago. Time also officially provided search services in its publications database last month.

In other cases, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, searchers will be redirected to sites that allow them to buy individual articles instead of having to buy publications of publishers.

Google leaders affirmed that the new service will not bring direct revenue. Google doesn't even know how to make a profit from this service.

' We don't pay much attention to profitability ,' said Anurag Acharya, a well-known engineer at Google. ' This is a completely new field for us .'

' Our new service is not an encyclopedia ,' said Acharya. ' Instead of displaying articles related to search keywords as before, search results in new services will be sorted in chronological order " .

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