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Google Opens Up 200 Years of News
posted Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Search engine Google launches a service that allows users to searchand browse over two centuries of news.
Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the NewYork 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."
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.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/business/5317942.stm
Partners in the project include the websites of US newspaper the NewYork 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."
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.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/business/5317942.stm
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