NEW DELHI: Google has pulled down the curtains on its ambitious project to digitise the world's newspaper archives. Launched in 2008, the project currently has digitised material from almost 2,000 newspapers.
"...we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives," Google had annopunced at the launch of the project.
While the existing archive of digitised news will remain online and searchable, the company has taken off all development resources and will not be scanning new submissions from its newspaper partners.
According to the Boston Phoenix, one of the newspapers that was giving Google its archives for scanning and indexing online, Google emailed its partners on Thursday to announce it shutting down the project. The company said that instead it wants to concentrate on "newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass, a platform that enables publishers to sell content and subscriptions directly from their own sites."
Google has pulled down the curtains on its ambitious project to digitise the world's newspaper archives.
"...we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives," Google had annopunced at the launch of the project.
While the existing archive of digitised news will remain online and searchable, the company has taken off all development resources and will not be scanning new submissions from its newspaper partners.
According to the Boston Phoenix, one of the newspapers that was giving Google its archives for scanning and indexing online, Google emailed its partners on Thursday to announce it shutting down the project. The company said that instead it wants to concentrate on "newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass, a platform that enables publishers to sell content and subscriptions directly from their own sites."
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