Google to Offer Deep-Web Searches

[Dave Wilton]

Ugh! They don't let you order the search results by date. They could have
done this, since all the articles are dated, but didn't. There is a
"timeline" feature that groups results into periods, but they are unordered
within those groupings. You can specify dates that you want to search, but
if you get a large number of hits, you'll need to do multiple searches to
reduce the number down to a manageable set.

You still need access to view the results in proprietary databases like
Newspaperarchive.com. But at least Google will tell you something might be
there.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net

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From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Grant Barrett
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:47 AM
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Subject: Fwd: Google to Offer Deep-Web Searches

The link to the Google archive search:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org>
> Date: September 6, 2006 08:40:17 EDT
> To: American ADS-L <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Google to Offer Deep-Web Searches
>
> Nice! A metasearch is well and truly needed for these resources.
> Now if they were affordable to individuals and scholars who do not
> have access through a university or library...
>
> "Google plans to announce on Wednesday that it is offering a
> service that will permit Internet users to search through the
> archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and
> uncover material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years."
>
> Included will be The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The
> Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis,
> HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/business/media/06google.html
>
> Grant Barrett
> Double-Tongued Dictionary
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> editor at doubletongued.org
>
> The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (May 2006, McGraw-Hill)
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071458042/
>

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