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September 11, 2008

The newspaper library of Google

In its effort to expand the digital library, started to build with the digitization of books and which has its representation in Google Books, Google now wants to add a digital archive. The company owns the famous search engine has recently announced in his blog that wants to digitize, index and make accessible the journals in the past 200 years of major newspapers. For the moment have begun digitizing the archives of The New York Times and The Washington Post, was expected to do the same with all U.S. and Canadian newspapers and then be extended to other continents. It aims to offer newspapers as published and integrate this historical database in the Google News Service.

---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.

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