In its never-ending quest to organize the world's information,
Google started to digitize old editions from newspapers like
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, St. Petersburg Times, Today's News-
Herald and make them available at Google News Archive. "Today,
we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers
accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper
publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. This
effort expands on the contributions of others who've already
begun digitizing historical newspapers. In 2006, we started
working with publications like the New York Times and the
Washington Post to index existing digital archives and make them
searchable via Google News Archive," explains Google Blog. The
newspapers digitized by Google are available for free in an
interface similar to the one from Google Book Search.
Unfortunately it's quite difficult to read articles, even though
Google automatically detects headlines and centers the
associated content. Daily Dot on the pre-history of