Google digitizing old newspapers for online perusal

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Google announced Monday it is working with a growing number of newspapers to “bring history online” by digitizing archives of articles ranging from lunar landings to local obituaries.

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“Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written,” Google product manager Punit Soni wrote in a blog posting at the Internet giant’s website.

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“And it’s our goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily.”

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Google is expanding a project started in 2006, when it began converting to digital format stories from newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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The California firm boasts that partners include the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, which has been publishing for more than 244 years and is considered the oldest newspaper in North America.

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People can find old articles by searching Google’s online News Archives. As the index grows, articles will be woven into results of general searches using Google.com, according to Soni.

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“Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all,” Soni wrote.

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