After scanning and saving reams of microfilm and yards of newsprint for five years, Google has decided to shelve its newspaper archiving project. The Google News Archive invited newspapers to send ...

Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning and indexing microfilm and other archival material from newspapers. Instead, it was focusing its energies on ...

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Google is pushing a new initiative to transfer the historical archives of newspapers to its growing online library of books and academic articles, reaching back to the very first print editions. A ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available online, the Internet search leader said ...