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Google Newspaper Archive
- devindotcom 13y agoJesus, this is fantastic. As others have pointed out OCR isn't so hot but you should be able to nab topics and names.
- zxexz 13y agoHoly shit, this is awesome. Lots of papers. LOTS. Even local papers. And the resolution is good!
- sebastianavina 13y agojust give it 5 years to google to shut down the service
- agildehaus 13y agoOh god, shut up already. You start the service and keep it going indefinitely then.
- IanCal 13y ago5 years of free access to a massive archive of high quality newspaper scans (with decent OCR and a search)? What bastards!
- andybak 13y agoHere is he folks. I was just about to open a book on how long before the kneejerk google shutdown guy arrived.
- _delirium 13y agoI was under the impression that it had been shut down. They announced in 2011 that they would no longer add new content to the archive (the last new addition had been in 2009), which I took as indicating a future phase-out: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385664,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385664,00.asp Then in 2013 they removed the archive-search functionality from Google News (these newspapers used to come up in Google News if you chose "archive" or an old enough date range). The direct URL to the archive search also stopped working a bit after that; if you go to http://news.google.com/archivesearch http://news.google.com/archivesearch you now just get redirected to the main Google News homepage. I assumed that was the completion of the phase-out, and that it was no longer available. Didn't know about the new URL. Cool that it's still online. I hope they plan to restart/reintegrate the project at some point, but at least leaving it in a frozen-but-accessible state is still useful.
- fiatjaf 13y agoGoogle may shut it down, but it won't throw away the data. Nobody would do this.
- jaxb 13y agoTalk to the Archive Team about that...
- nighthawk24 13y agoIs there a way to download all of it?
- zxexz 13y agoI'd like to know this too. I can't find a way. Maybe I'll right a script to scrape it.
- IanCal 13y agoThis is incredible! The search function works well, which means they've OCR'd the papers. Is there a way of grabbing this text? I've not seen anything obvious. Also the "link to this article" doesn't seem to work for me, although the search had taken me to the article just fine.
- wikiburner 13y agoSlightly related, but does anyone know where to get the equivalent of news.google.com or news.yahoo.com, but with more than 30 days of history? Ideally several years worth. Lexis/Nexis appears to only cover print news, and their articles aren't timestamped.
- _delirium 13y agoGoogle News used to do that (and this newspaper archive was part of it, along with some others), but they seem to have pivoted towards only current news. Not entirely sure why. During the time that it had that functionality, I often found it useful.
- avighnay 13y agoJust checked it out and unfortunately landed on The Times edition from 1804, the paper was filled with classfieds announcing awards for returning lost slaves, the casual manner of those ads made me lose my appetite for browsing further... very different times they were...
- andybak 13y agoThe search/OCR seems patchy. I tried a few (presumably) unique phrases from some and the article wasn't found. For example with: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=PQY3Tb_h0-cC&dat=19111206&printsec=frontpage&hl=en http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=PQY3Tb_h0-cC&dat=19111... I tried: "marshalling that unspeakable parade" (wonderful phrase!) another dull and listless session cattle prices high granby quebec and various other phrases from the home page both with and without quotes. Nothing returned the edition in question.
- mpclark 13y agoDoes anyone know how to submit a newspaper to this archive? I have all 51 editions of a now closed newspaper in PDF format and it would be lovely to find them a home here...
- _delirium 13y agoThey announced in 2011 that they were no longer going to be updating the archive, so I would guess there isn't a way to do so: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385664,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385664,00.asp You might try archive.org? https://archive.org/details/newspapers https://archive.org/details/newspapers
- toomuchtodo 13y agoPlease submit to the Internet Archive!
- mpclark 13y agoThanks all for the suggestions. I shall do just that!
- maxerickson 13y agoIf you haven't contacted them yet, archive.org might be interested in hosting a copy.
- eshvk 13y agoI wonder if there is an easy of downloading this and OCRing it. I would love to use this as training material for some ML algos.
- mburst 13y agoThe Google logo at the top appears misaligned for me. Also when I click it, it redirects to a 404. Nonetheless very cool archive.
- 300bps 13y agoI've done a lot of genealogy work for my family name and have used http://newspaperarchive.com/ http://newspaperarchive.com/ extensively. In comparing a few quick searches, the Google Newspaper Archive is not even comparable. We're talking 2 irrelevant hits for Google Newspaper Archive vs. thousands of relevant hits for newspaperarchive.com. And newspaperarchive.com only has a fraction of the newspapers in the country within their records. There is definitely a lot of room for improvement in this space because it's such a large task.
- webwanderings 13y agoYou know you are comparing apples to oranges? Google's archive is free and open.
- 300bps 13y agoYou know you are comparing apples to oranges? Google's archive is free and open. I'm not comparing Apples and Oranges. At worst what I'm doing is comparing store-bought Oranges in very good condition to free Oranges you could pick up off the side of the road that fell off a truck two weeks ago and are half way to rotten.