Google Inc. (GOOG) is expanding its online news index to include stories published years ago hoping to create new sales channels and make its Web site more useful.
The archives unveiled today include articles from media outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, and the Washington Post. LexisNexix, Factiva and HighBeam Research among others, have opened up sections of their databases to Google's expanded index, according to this WasingtonPost.com article.
Until now, Google's four-year-old news-search service has focused primarily on stories posted on the Web in the past 30 days.
The new feature will share only excerpts from stories related to users' requests. To see the full stories, users will be sent to the Web sites that own the content, which gives media outlets a chance to charge for access to the full stories -- a common practice in distributing historical information.
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Many users dont have credit cards so you cannot access these paid articles. There is a software service reported called congoo netpass. This plug-in provides free access to many of these premium and subscription articles. I dont know how it works and its also legal. The software is also free:
http://www.congoo.com
Posted by: Janet Weisberg | September 6, 2006 9:20 AM | Permalink to Comment