Google News Increases Its News Archive. The standard Google News has been a little more open lately about how many news sources are getting indexed, and now Google News is getting in on the act as well.
Google News announced last week that its news archive has been quadrupled, with new publications both from the US (Village Voice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and abroad (Manila Standard, The Nation). The direct URL for Google News’ advanced archive search is There you can narrow your search by a variety of options including date range and source. You can also narrow down your results to only those archives which are free. Just to get a sense of how large the archives are, I did a search for a.
I got about 328 million results. Chronicling America - The Library of Congress. New York Times releases newspaper-like “article skimmer” While I prefer the sheer heft of the Sunday NYT, there’s something to be said for a great and easy way to skim the online version of the paper.
Thankfully, the company just released a new webpage/browser for their website that creates skimmable browser that is easy to read without scrolling.The skimmer works with most browsers. You simply click as section to see some of the latest stories – not all of them, but enough to be useful. The stories pop up in little boxes on the page along with a thumbnail image.