Changes to Google News Archive and search

[Dan Goncharoff]

What are you expecting to find in a search of the web before 1970??

Or are you trying to search Books or News?

DanG


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:22 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Thanks very much for your response Ben. I have seen that interface,
> and I did see that help page. What do you make of this sentence?:
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> Note that Google Web Search doesn’t support custom date ranges earlier
> than 1970 or content behind a paywall.
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> I just tried the suggested interface to perform a search between
> 1/6/1950 and 1/13/1960 for the word "freedom" and no matches were
> returned.
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> Garson
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:57 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
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> >> Google has made changes to the search interface for the Google News
> >> Archive of scanned newspapers. The changes appear to make the archive
> >> much more difficult to search effectively. If a list member would like
> >> to share ideas for searching this database please reply with a message
> >> on list or off list. Thanks.
> >
> > They don't make it easy, but Google News Archive can still be reliably
> > searched in a couple of ways. I keep this page bookmarked:
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> > https://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search
> >
> > ...which makes a box pop up over the usual news search allowing you to
> > specify a date range in the archives. Or you can do a site search on
> > Google using <site:google.com/newspapers> and then select "custom
> > range" in the "search tools" pulldown menu. More info here:
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> > https://support.google.com/news/answer/1638638
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> > --bgz
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