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200 Years of News at Google

Google has added a new feature that lets users crunch through 200 years of newspaper archives. The articles returned include both free and fee-based newspaper archives. The BBC says Google won't reveal the exact number of sources in their news archives search tool.
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.
SurfersSurf.com provides some examples of the timeline feature including links for Michael Jordan and Winston Churchill timelines. You can type in any famous person or place and Google will return a timeline of events using news articles.

Posted on September 15, 2006
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Google to Pay Associated Press for Content

Google has long been aggregating news stories from the Associated Press and other news outlets in its news database at Google News. Now it appears that Google will start paying the AP for news.
In a move the builds another link in the bridge between new and traditional media, Google and the Associated Press have entered into a content agreement for stories and photographs.

"The license in this agreement provides for new uses of original AP content for features and products we will introduce in the future," said Google spokesperson Sonya Boralv.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

AP had reportedly been uncomfortable with Google's practice of aggregating and displaying the news wire's content on its Web site with no payment to AP. Now, Google appears to be willing to pay for the content as part of a new product planned for Google News.
The article says the AP also charges other services like Yahoo and Microsoft for the use of their news stories in news databases. The article also notes that Google still faces a lawsuit from Agence-France Press (AFP).

Posted on August 9, 2006
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News Publishers to Confront Google News

Reuters reports that the World Association of Newspapers has launched a campaign against search engine like Google that aggregate newspaper content. Reuters itself is an associate member of the World Associated of Newspapers.
The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, whose members include dozens of national newspaper trade bodies, said it is exploring ways to "challenge the exploitation of content by search engines without fair compensation to copyright owners."

Web sites like Google and its specialised Google News service automatically pull in headlines, photos and short excerpts of articles from thousands of news sources, linking back to the publishers' own site. Google News does not currently carry advertising.

"They're building a new medium on the backs of our industry, without paying for any of the content," Ali Rahnema, managing director of the association, told Reuters in an interview.

"The news aggregators are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of an article -- it's for the courts to decide whether that's a copyright violation or not."
More about the task force can be found here.

Posted on January 31, 2006
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