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Google to Sell Old News Articles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-don't-even-pay-for-new-news dept.

Krishna Dagli was one of a few people to note that Google is planning on selling old news. Or more accurately, scanning in 200 years of old newspapers, and selling people the ability to view the full text. They'll be using publications like the NYT and Time magazine. Summaries will be free, but the full article text will have a price.

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  1. The service is already launched by ribuck · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA is old news. The service is already launched here: http://news.google.com/archivesearch

    Web Owls (a group blog by some Google Answers researchers) has a piece about it: http://web-owls.com/2006/09/06/googles-news-archiv e-search/

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  2. Re:ploy to promote checkout by theckhd · · Score: 5, Informative
    The charge is from the original publisher. FTFA:
    What's more, publishers don't have to share the wealth with Google. The search-engine company will receive no payment from publishers' content fees, advertising, or supplying traffic. .... The results initially will be served without Google's customary sponsored links on the right side of the page, and at the outset, Google won't make money directly from the service.
    Though the article did quote a Google engineer saying that they may add adwords later on.
  3. Wrong, wrong, wrong: Google to scan nothing by MoNickels · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google is not scanning anything. It is merely providing a deep-web metasearch for pre-existing databases such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale. These are, for the most part, pay services that until now had to be searched separately. For people like me (a lexicographer) this is great news because it will shave many minutes off of each work day. Now, if they'd also make them affordable to independent scholars...

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  4. Re:there is a saying in news organisations by Comboman · · Score: 5, Insightful
    old news is worthless, good luck getting any money for it when libraries already provide microfiche copies of newspapers going back 200+ years

    Good luck entering a search term into a microfiche machine.

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