Google to Offer Deep-Web Searches

[Joel S. Berson]

And this is the Google *News* archive.  Does it encompass more than
newspapers?  The claim is rather broad:  "News archive search
provides an easy way to search and explore *historical
archives*"  [Emphasis added.]  Does it/will it go back before the
19th century?  (E.g., Early American Newspapers.)

Joel

At 9/6/2006 10:21 AM, you wrote:
>I just tried "Bampfylde-Moore Carew", and did get access to a Des
>Moines Daily Leader article from 1902 and an Atlanta Constitution
>article from 1887.  Are some newspapers accessible via
>newspaperarchive.com without subscription?
>
>On the other hand, observe the quality of the scanning from the Daily
>Leader:  I feel lucky I found Carew!  (Viz.: "a hit of the story"!)
>
>Life as it existed in the American colonies in 1650 is re- flected in
>a somewhat novel light. The later Puritans and certain phases of
>early -life in Virginia have been treated without fear or favor, and
>will likely etir up spirited discussion- unless the eweet and noble
>temper of the story entirely absorbs the auditor. -At the risk of
>incurring the displeas- ure of the author (although I will keep-
>faiiluin not telling his name) I cannot refrain from divulging a hit
>of the story in its stage form. The prologue "is laid in England in
>that lull in the .tihcjek of-steel coat and leather jerkin, Avhen
>Cromwell was. Lord Protector England and royalists were agitating
>cause of the second Charles. It was: In this troubled soil that the
>love of Bampfylde Moore CAREW, grandson cf a churlish roundhead, was
>shown for Lady St. Aubyn, granddaughter of Llpr'd Penruddock. A
>bitter -political enmity existed between the grand- fathers.
>
>(And of course this is not my B-M Carew, who was born in 1724.  The
>Atlanta Constitution item is--although it describes a bastardized
>later edition, full of inventions of later authors.)
>
>Joel
>
>At 9/6/2006 09:52 AM, you wrote:
>>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
>
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