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Search Engine Marketing, Chris Sherman, September 20, 2006

News and history junkies, take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search through 20 decades' worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine.

"The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded," said Anurag Acharya, Google's distinguished engineer, who played a major role in shepherding the new product.

Google has partnered with news organizations, including "Time," "The Wall Street Journal," "The New York Times," "The Guardian," and the "Washington Post," as well as aggregators, including Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale, and HighBeam Research, to index the full text of content going back 200 years.

Both free and fee-based content are included in the archive search, from both publishers and aggregators.

The archive is at http://news.google.com/archivesearch/

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