Changes to Google News Archive and search

[Ben Zimmer]

It's great that we can search on individual newspapers now, but AFAICT
the search box still relies on Google site search, with the
frustrating 1970 cutoff for date ranges. I won't be happy until we can
once again search for, say, 19th-century examples of "hot dog"!


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Grant Barrett wrote:
>
> 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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