Google Brings Newspaper History Online
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Newspaper reports are the first witnesses of history. Google is bring that history online:
“A new initiative to bring old newspapers that pre-date the digital age to the web has been launched by the search giant Google.
The company has partnered with around 100 newspapers to digitize them and make scanned copies available online.”
link: Old newspapers get online launch
This is an ambitious initiative on Google’s part. It brings an enormous amount of information online. One can’t help but think that Google is helping to document a fading medium. As the newspaper industry is trying to adjust to the competition of the internet - and the loss of advertising revenue, Google may be preserving editions of newspapers that may not survive the transition into internet news.
Catherine Forsythe
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Jerry Tobias
September 10th, 2008
at 10:20am
Catherine,
I guess I’m still from the “old school” where newspaper reading has become habitual. I had read somewhere that there is more absorbtion from reading from a book, or a newspaper than there is reading from a monitor.
I have found that to be true for me also. Monitor text feels more transitory and more easily forgotten.
Jerry