Google to offer news archive going back 300 years

[Herman Munster]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/06/060906093409.bwysxtp7.html

Internet giant Google Inc., is expected to announce that it will offer a free archive service enabling Internet users to search for printed articles back to the 1700s, US newspapers reported.
Called Google News Archive Search, the service will direct users to both paid and free content on publishers' Web sites, but will not generate revenues for Google itself, The New York Times said.

"Were not focusing on monetization yet," Anurag Acharya, a Google engineer who helped develop the service was quoted as saying by the Times on Wednesday. "This is new territory for us."

The company was working with several partners in the new service including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale, the daily said.

[Canuckistanian]

1. I wonder what Dick Clark was doing in 1892?

I hear he was really pushing for this hot new John Philip Sousa guy.

[whistle]

2. I like that idea