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just give it 5 years to google to shut down the service
by sebastianavina 13y ago
just 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.