Google to make newspaper from yesteryears available again

Google has decided to scan and digitise a number of historical newspapers, and will make the scanned images of the original newspapers available online.

In a blogpost on its website, Google announced that it is seeking to make old newspapers available once again, and will make them searchable online.

The search leader plans to do this by entering into partnerships with newspaper publishers that will see the digitised versions of millions of pages of newprint come online as part of a mammoth news archive.

The ad-supported effort will see Google digitise pages of news archives, including photos, articles, headlines, and advertisements.

The move marks an expansion of a two-year old initiative by Google to index old newspapers of The New York Times and the Washington Post, and index them in Google's News Archive.

In the blogpost, Google project manager Punit Soni said that users would be able to search these newspapers online, and will also be able to ''browse through them exactly as they were printed -- photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all".