Google plans to become a worldwide newspaper archive
 

On Google's blog yesterday, it (they, not sure what to call it!) annoucned that it will digitize, index and make accesible via the Internet all written press from the last 200 years.

And, the ball IS rolling...Two years ago Google began to digitize archives from The New York Times and The Washington Post, which appear in their original publication format in searches done through Google news. Now, Google plans to do the same with all North American newspapers, followed by European, Asian and African publications.

Google is offering to share the costs of digitalization. However, not all newspapers are welcoming the proposal with open arms for fear that the search engine would become a competitor. "The main concern is that Google could exploit the content the same way that news portals do," warned Ken Doctor, an analyst with The New York Times.

However, given Google's position amongst the World Wide Web, "if you can't beat them, join them". There are already more than 100 newspapers working with Google and other partners, such as Heritage Mircofilm and ProQuest, that are adding archives to microfilm.

-->From Klixxx

Fuck google.

Google can lick my ass.

doesnt surprise me

Giving up that much content seems like a mistake.

In 10 years there might some super extreme harddrives that are cheap and can
hold 50 years of a news paper and then the news papers will want to take back
control of their content from google. But it will be too late.

Can lick my ass as well

will they scan hustler and playboy too? :)