Google Calls It Quits On News Archive Project

Google announced in an e-mail to publishers today that it’s hitting the brakes on its News Archive project, an extension of Google News that digitally scans and archives print papers. The project was a massive undertaking, and allowed publishers to send in old newspapers that Google would then scan and add to the online archives, splitting the pageview revenue generated from the scans. Many publishers complained of a lengthy lag time between sending in papers and seeing them in the archive, but the project was an interesting idea nonetheless, and surely helpful for anyone performing online research.

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