Magazine initiative from Google Book Search

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Dec 9 20:32:59 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:29:17PM -0500, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> ----
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html
> Today, we're announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and
> current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing
> millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular
> Mechanics, and Ebony. [etc.]
> ----
>
> I don't see a complete list of magazines, but when you do find a magazine
> they've scanned you can browse all available issues or search within those
> issues. Here's "Ebony", covering 1973 to 1979:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=r9QDAAAAMBAJ
>
> Pretty exciting stuff.

Ooh, thanks for pointing this out. I started getting results
from such places in the last day or two, but didn't know why.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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