I've done a lot of genealogy work for my family name and have used http://newspaperarchive.com/ extensively. In comparing a few quick searches, the Google Newspaper Archive is not even comparable. We're talking 2 irrelevant hits for Google Newspaper Archive vs. thousands of relevant hits for newspaperarchive.com.
And newspaperarchive.com only has a fraction of the newspapers in the country within their records. There is definitely a lot of room for improvement in this space because it's such a large task.
You know you are comparing apples to oranges? Google's archive is free and open.
I'm not comparing Apples and Oranges. At worst what I'm doing is comparing store-bought Oranges in very good condition to free Oranges you could pick up off the side of the road that fell off a truck two weeks ago and are half way to rotten.
This is incredible! The search function works well, which means they've OCR'd the papers. Is there a way of grabbing this text? I've not seen anything obvious.
Also the "link to this article" doesn't seem to work for me, although the search had taken me to the article just fine.
I was under the impression that it had been shut down.
They announced in 2011 that they would no longer add new content to the archive (the last new addition had been in 2009), which I took as indicating a future phase-out: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385664,00.asp
Then in 2013 they removed the archive-search functionality from Google News (these newspapers used to come up in Google News if you chose "archive" or an old enough date range). The direct URL to the archive search also stopped working a bit after that; if you go to http://news.google.com/archivesearch you now just get redirected to the main Google News homepage.
I assumed that was the completion of the phase-out, and that it was no longer available. Didn't know about the new URL. Cool that it's still online. I hope they plan to restart/reintegrate the project at some point, but at least leaving it in a frozen-but-accessible state is still useful.
Just checked it out and unfortunately landed on The Times edition from 1804, the paper was filled with classfieds announcing awards for returning lost slaves, the casual manner of those ads made me lose my appetite for browsing further... very different times they were...
Does anyone know how to submit a newspaper to this archive? I have all 51 editions of a now closed newspaper in PDF format and it would be lovely to find them a home here...
Slightly related, but does anyone know where to get the equivalent of news.google.com or news.yahoo.com, but with more than 30 days of history? Ideally several years worth.
Lexis/Nexis appears to only cover print news, and their articles aren't timestamped.
Google News used to do that (and this newspaper archive was part of it, along with some others), but they seem to have pivoted towards only current news. Not entirely sure why. During the time that it had that functionality, I often found it useful.
And newspaperarchive.com only has a fraction of the newspapers in the country within their records. There is definitely a lot of room for improvement in this space because it's such a large task.