Changes to Google News Archive and search

[Grant Barrett]

Looks like the relaunch has happened!

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Grant Barrett


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Irrespectively of what the project may cost them or bring in ad sales,
> News Search and News Archive would have been far more beneficial to /us/
> if they simply return them to where they were about 18-24 months ago.
> And Google Books seems to be completely broken, despite a positive legal
> outcome.
>
>     VS-)
>
> On 2/12/2014 2:15 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the update, Ben. Google currently employs some of the most
>> brilliant computer scientists in the world. They know that it is not
>> necessary to break the system while they are performing a "facelift".
>>
>> Chronological search has worked incorrectly in GB and Google News for
>> a couple years even when the metadata is accurate. The databases are
>> still extremely valuable.
>>
>> The revenue from Google Books and the Google News Archive is probably
>> small. Historical net revenue is probably quite negative for these
>> projects, I would guess. On the other hand, they can feed this data to
>> their new deep AI projects.
>
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