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Google Debuts News Archive Search

Enabling history exploration

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

6th of September 2006, 13:15 GMT

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The Mountain View has debuted Google news Archive Search at it bridges a closer relationship with traditional media environments. The search giant stated that the archive search solution will
index news content starting two centuries ago as it has developed partnership with Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale and HighBeam Research.

"The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded," said Google's Anurag Acharya. "It's fascinating to see how people's attitudes and emotions have changed through time. Much like news, we are grouping related articles together from a given time period. The ranking here, as you may expect from a Google service, is based entirely on relevance."

"This is going to be a very good thing for us," said Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com. "There is a tremendous hunger out there for our archives."

The Mountain View Company stated that it will deliver the news archive search solution without imposing a sales referrals commission. Additionally, Google has also revealed that it will indiscriminately bundle paid and free content, as result relevance will take center stage. The search giant aims to generate revenue solely based on the traffic factor associated with the service. "News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods," stated Google.
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