AfterTek

Google is working on digitally archiving millions of pages from old newspapers. T extensive project began in 2006. They started their work with the Washington Post and the New York Times to index all of the existing digital archives and to allow them to be found when searched for through Google’s technology.

Now they are working harder then ever to expand the initiative. Their goal is to make every story that was ever printed available; “from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily,” according to a post on Google’s official blog.

“For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have been conveyed in newsprint–from revolutions and politics to fashion to local weather or high school football scores. Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written. And it’s our goal to help readers find all of them,” wrote Punit Soni, a product manager at Google, on Google’s blog.

Google has already made plans to archive the stories exactly how they appear in the original paper. This means that they will contain the original headlines, ads, and photographs.

“You’ll be able to explore this historical treasure trove by searching the Google News Archive or by using the timeline feature after searching Google News . Not every search will trigger this new content, but you can start by trying queries like [Nixon space shuttle] or [Titanic located],” Soni wrote on the blog. “Over time, as we scan more articles and our index grows, we’ll also start blending these archives into our main search results so that when you search Google.com, you’ll be searching the full text of these newspapers as well.”