~article~ Google opens up 200 years of news

From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5317942.stm

Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the
launch of the Google News Archive Search.
The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised
newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online
content.

People using the search are shown results from both free and
subscription-based news outlets.

Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New
York Times and the Guardian from the UK.

Other sources include news aggregators, websites which collect and
display news stories from multiple sources.

"The goal here is to be able to explore history as it unfolded," said
Anurag Acharya, an engineer at Google and one of the team behind the
project.

"It's fascinating to see how people's attitudes and emotions have
changed through time."

History lesson

The new service searches hundreds of different news sources to answer
a user's query. The exact number of sources is confidential.

Results are presented in similar fashion to a Google News search, with
"related" articles about the same event grouped together. Free and
charged-for articles are displayed side by side.

With pages from commercial websites, the cost of viewing them is also
shown. Google says search results are based on relevance, not
partnerships with companies.

Users can also view articles using a timeline that displays key dates
associated with a story.

So the first Moon landing would highlight 1969 as a key date, but also
identify other years when lunar landings took place or when the topic
was in the news.

"The ability to browse this historical overview allows users to
identify key time periods and get some sense of the flow of events,"
said Mr Acharya.

The earliest known searchable story is, he said, from "somewhere in
the mid-1700s" - considerably older than the current 30-day archive
offered through Google News.

The service is accessed through the news archive website or the Google
news page. It is also activated when it can provide relevant results
to a user's search on google.com.

In this case, links to the most relevant historical news articles are
displayed separately above the normal search results.

Historical challenge

The launch of the news archive search extends Google's influence over
how the world's information is indexed, searched and accessed.

According to online research firm Nielsen/NetRatings, more than 380
million people used the search engine every month in 2005.

The company is also expanding into areas other than search. In August
it announced plans to offer consumers the chance to download and print
classic novels free of charge.

"I'm strongly in favour of the democratisation of access to historical
documents, but also cautious about how much information Google now
controls," said Professor Roy Rosenzweig, a historian from the Center
for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US.

He says that increasingly the model of how we access information and
what information we have access to is changing, as public archives
such as libraries are replaced by private companies. But, he says, he
is "extremely excited" about Google's latest offering.

"As a scholar and historian I want as much information as possible,
accessible to as many people as possible at the least cost, and the
extent to which Google is doing that is compelling."

Google says it plans to launch the news archive search service on
other international Google sites soon.



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Paul wrote:

From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5317942.stm

Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the
launch of the Google News Archive Search.
The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised
newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online
content.

People using the search are shown results from both free and
subscription-based news outlets.

Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New
York Times and the Guardian from the UK.

Other sources include news aggregators, websites which collect and
display news stories from multiple sources.

"The goal here is to be able to explore history as it unfolded," said
Anurag Acharya, an engineer at Google and one of the team behind the
project.

"It's fascinating to see how people's attitudes and emotions have
changed through time."

History lesson

The new service searches hundreds of different news sources to answer
a user's query. The exact number of sources is confidential.

Results are presented in similar fashion to a Google News search, with
"related" articles about the same event grouped together. Free and
charged-for articles are displayed side by side.

With pages from commercial websites, the cost of viewing them is also
shown. Google says search results are based on relevance, not
partnerships with companies.

Users can also view articles using a timeline that displays key dates
associated with a story.

So the first Moon landing would highlight 1969 as a key date, but also
identify other years when lunar landings took place or when the topic
was in the news.

"The ability to browse this historical overview allows users to
identify key time periods and get some sense of the flow of events,"
said Mr Acharya.

The earliest known searchable story is, he said, from "somewhere in
the mid-1700s" - considerably older than the current 30-day archive
offered through Google News.

The service is accessed through the news archive website or the Google
news page. It is also activated when it can provide relevant results
to a user's search on google.com.

In this case, links to the most relevant historical news articles are
displayed separately above the normal search results.

Historical challenge

The launch of the news archive search extends Google's influence over
how the world's information is indexed, searched and accessed.

According to online research firm Nielsen/NetRatings, more than 380
million people used the search engine every month in 2005.

The company is also expanding into areas other than search. In August
it announced plans to offer consumers the chance to download and print
classic novels free of charge.

"I'm strongly in favour of the democratisation of access to historical
documents, but also cautious about how much information Google now
controls," said Professor Roy Rosenzweig, a historian from the Center
for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US.

He says that increasingly the model of how we access information and
what information we have access to is changing, as public archives
such as libraries are replaced by private companies. But, he says, he
is "extremely excited" about Google's latest offering.

"As a scholar and historian I want as much information as possible,
accessible to as many people as possible at the least cost, and the
extent to which Google is doing that is compelling."

Google says it plans to launch the news archive search service on
other international Google sites soon.

Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...&oe=ISO-8859-1

cat yronwode, ego-surfin' since 1994. :-)

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:43:41 -0700, catherine yronwode
<cat (AT) luckymojo (DOT) com> wrote:

Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...&oe=ISO-8859-1

cat yronwode, ego-surfin' since 1994. :-)

I see there is one that tells you how your surname is pronounced. I
always wondered that.

Didn't know if it was a silent Y and the "wode" part pronounced as
wode as in "toad"

I should have clicked with me that you have used old English. Doh.

plh
Paul


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catherine yronwode <cat (AT) luckymojo (DOT) com> wrote:

Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)

I am still dead :-D

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On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:00:33 +0100, Paul
<lamewolf2004[REMOVE]@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:43:41 -0700, catherine yronwode
cat (AT) luckymojo (DOT) com> wrote:

Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...&oe=ISO-8859-1

cat yronwode, ego-surfin' since 1994. :-)

I see there is one that tells you how your surname is pronounced. I
always wondered that.

Didn't know if it was a silent Y and the "wode" part pronounced as
wode as in "toad"

Wode as in woad, I suspect!

BB


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On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:19:34 GMT, Big Bill <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk>
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:00:33 +0100, Paul
lamewolf2004[REMOVE]@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:43:41 -0700, catherine yronwode
cat (AT) luckymojo (DOT) com> wrote:

Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...&oe=ISO-8859-1

cat yronwode, ego-surfin' since 1994. :-)

I see there is one that tells you how your surname is pronounced. I
always wondered that.

Didn't know if it was a silent Y and the "wode" part pronounced as
wode as in "toad"

Wode as in woad, I suspect!

thats what I thought, but it is wode as in wood.
plh
Paul as in Tall

BB

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http://www.firstpeople.us/html/The-Prayer.html
http://www.firstpeople.us/html/What-Are-You.html

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__/ [ catherine yronwode ] on Friday 08 September 2006 00:43 \__

Paul wrote:

From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5317942.stm

Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the
launch of the Google News Archive Search.
The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised
newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online
content.

People using the search are shown results from both free and
subscription-based news outlets.

Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New
York Times and the Guardian from the UK.

snip /

Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...&oe=ISO-8859-1

cat yronwode, ego-surfin' since 1994. :-)

There's a whole new world of opportunities now that Google open-sourced their
OCR library. Google takes advantages of book/paper scanning armies. Schmidt
said it may take 300 years to index all of the available knowledge that's on
print (or digital). Scary thought. How long before Google Geneology is
launched? Let's give 'em a year, eh? *smile*

For whatever demand exists, there will be a solution. At least they don't
built pyramids.

Best wishes,

Roy

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On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:27:47 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

__/ [ catherine yronwode ] on Friday 08 September 2006 00:43 \__

Paul wrote:

From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5317942.stm

Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the
launch of the Google News Archive Search.
The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised
newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online
content.

People using the search are shown results from both free and
subscription-based news outlets.

Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the New
York Times and the Guardian from the UK.

snip /

Hey, cool! Lookit me, i'm in the news!!! Yipeee!!!!! (And there's a
couple about my ex-partner Peter Yronwode, too,)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch...&oe=ISO-8859-1

cat yronwode, ego-surfin' since 1994. :-)

There's a whole new world of opportunities now that Google open-sourced their
OCR library. Google takes advantages of book/paper scanning armies. Schmidt
said it may take 300 years to index all of the available knowledge that's on
print (or digital). Scary thought. How long before Google Geneology is
launched? Let's give 'em a year, eh? *smile*

For whatever demand exists, there will be a solution. At least they don't
built pyramids.

So far.

BB


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