{"id":2635,"date":"2008-09-08T22:25:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T02:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2008-09-08T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T02:25:37","slug":"google-is-the-new-microfiche-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/09\/08\/google-is-the-new-microfiche-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is the new microfiche archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t have time to blog this earlier today, for reasons that are too depressing to go into, but I still think Google&#8217;s announcement about an expanded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/08\/AR2008090801631.html\">newspaper archive search<\/a> is one of the few things that have come out of TechCrunch50 and DEMO &#8217;08 that I can genuinely get excited about. Most of the other news seems to involve companies whose vowel-deprived names (and in some cases business models) were either snatched out of the latest Web 2.0 hat &#8212; or in some cases copied directly from some other revenue-deprived startup.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Google&#8217;s archive search &#8212; which involves aggregating scans of old newspapers from around the country and the world (including <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/bringing-history-online-one-newspaper.html\">a shout out<\/a> to the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, the oldest newspaper in North America) &#8212; may be another revenue-free offering from the Web giant, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/9\/another-cool-google-product-that-won-t-make-money-digitizing-old-newspapers-goog-\">Silicon Alley Insider notes<\/a>. But I guess I&#8217;m a sucker for Google&#8217;s motto about making all of the world&#8217;s information freely available. Or maybe I just have not-so-fond memories of scanning through reams of old microfiche slides from yellowing file folders in the newspaper library when I started in the news business. I would have given anything for a one-stop search that could find keywords in those files.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Marissa Mayer also told the TechCrunch50 conference that Google plans to sell AdSense around the archives, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/08\/AR2008090801631.html\">share the revenue<\/a> with publishers &#8212; so maybe the odd buggy-whip company or patent-medicine maker could get some mileage out of those old newspaper clippings from the 1870s. But at least news geeks like me will be happy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t have time to blog this earlier today, for reasons that are too depressing to go into, but I still think Google&#8217;s announcement about an expanded newspaper archive search is one of the few things that have come out of TechCrunch50 and DEMO &#8217;08 that I can genuinely get excited about. Most of the other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/09\/08\/google-is-the-new-microfiche-archive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google is the new microfiche archive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}