Google News Archive

When you search through Google news you get links to many of the very latest news articles. But sometimes you need historical information rather than the current news. Google provides a special search page just to search the Google News Archive. You can find this search site at: http://news.google.com/archivesearch.

You can search the news archive as you would search through Google News (see Chapter 14). You can also click the Show Timeline button. When you search the archive, the search results appear on the right; in the column to the left you see links to specific time periods. The articles are listed in chronological order. Clicking these links limits your search results to just those time periods, and the articles are listed by year.

In the search results page, you can toggle between the Show timeline view and the Search articles view by clicking the links in the upper-right portion of the page. In the Search articles view, you can also limit the results to a particular news source. The news sources are listed on the left as links.

The Advanced Archive Search allows you to focus your search through the archive by searching on keywords, as with any search, but also allows you to limit your search by publication date, the language of the article, the source of the article, and if you want to search pay-per-view articles, you can search by price of the article.