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Google unveils historical research service

Access to 200 years of newspaper articles

Google plans to enhance its Google News service with a feature designed to let users find articles with historical information on events and people.

Google News Archive Search is expected to go live today with an index of links to articles, primarily from newspapers and magazines.

The service's index was built with links already in Google's general web-search index, as well as with links it gained access to through arrangements with publishers and news aggregators, said Jim Gerber, Google's content partnerships director.

The service ranks results based on their level of relevance to the query, and preference isn't given to links from Google partners, which include The New York Times, Factiva, Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal.

The service covers roughly the past 200 years and results can be grouped in various ways, including by timelines, topics and publishers.

Google News Archive Search doesn't return links to multimedia content, nor does it include links to reference material such as books and encyclopedias, said Anurag Acharya, a distinguished engineer at Google. It's not linked with Google's Book Search service.

The links lead both to free and fee-based articles. Google merely provides links and doesn't get involved in monetary transactions between users and publishers for access to the articles. There is no integration with Google's Checkout online payment system, Acharya said.

The new service has no monetisation model, and there is no financial arrangement between Google and the publishers it is partnering with, he added.

Google News Archive Search is launching with a US English-language interface, although it contains content in other languages. The plan is to make it more global through collaboration with international partners and to launch it for other countries.

To access the service, users can go here or via a link from Google News. Google News Archive Search links will also surface sometimes on Google.com results.


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