Google Digitizes Old Newspapers
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
Tags: Google, History, Internet, newspapers, survival
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