About a year ago, Google broke the ability to search their newspaper archives by date. They claimed at the time that they were upgrading their newspaper archive interface, but it was always obvious that they had broken it on purpose and had no intention or plan to fix it.
The search by date feature is still there, it just doesn’t work any more. I wonder what the story was behind that decision?
I use Bing and Duck-Duck-Go.
Haven’t you heard Gaggle believes in “Do no evil” as in don’t allow “deniers” the view of history.
Never trust an organisation with that sort of mission statement
I’ve stopped using it almost completely. It’s a useless piece of shit. So is most news for that matter.
The usefulness of a feature is inversely proportional to how long it will be supported by the supplier …
It’s not part of their 1984-blueprint.
“He who controls the past …”
… or, access to the past; cordon it off (like the street in front of Valerie Jarrett’s White House) and one accomplishes the same thing …
This sounds like paranoia to me. Programmers break things all the time. Hotmail got broken 3 months ago – if you delete the last group of emails at the end of your in tray the system reports that your in tray is empty and effectively ‘hangs’. It’s been broken like this for months.
Bullshit.
Hmmm … this may be of some use:
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-note-about-searching-google-scanned.html
This URL https://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search and it will show you a popup. Fill in the fields the way you want, THEN do a date-restrict to the dates you want, and THEN in the “Source” field, enter the name of the newspaper you want.
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The whole point is that you want to be able to search all of their archives. But thanks for the pointless comment.
And … posts are getting ‘eaten’ again for some reason …
A test.
site:google.com/newspapers ice age
With a date range of 1/1/1960 – 12/31/1975:
Returns 8 Pages of results … no count of items shown.
See if the returned link will post:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com%2Fnewspapers+ice+age&es_sm=93&biw=1280&bih=933&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1960%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1975&tbm=
Example:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19731005&id=bX4xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=06EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1038,1153515
“Antarctic Ice-cap Seen As Nuclear Waste Dump”
Oct 5, 1973
The Gazette
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19700323&id=25ceAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mcsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6210,5592185
“Permafrost Ice Found On Hawaii”
Daytona Beach Morning Journal
Mar 23 1970
Last example and I’m off for the evening:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19740117&id=AZ8rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6818,2129005
“Mystery Of Underground River Flowing Through Area”
The Nashua Telegraph
Jan 17, 1974
“Sounds incredible? Only if you are a non-believer in what might have happened during the Ice Age, and if you believe Witches’ Pond in Foxboro, Mass., is merely spring-fed.”
It doesn’t work. Your are deluding yourself. Occasionally it comes up with something sort of meaningful, but most of the time completely fails.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.google.com%2Fnewspapers+lightning+california&biw=1920&bih=922&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1880%2Ccd_max%3A1979&tbm=#q=site:news.google.com%2Fnewspapers+%22climate+change%22&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:1880%2Ccd_max:1979
A search I’ll take a look at tomorrow (time permitting): ice storm, date range 1960 – 1975
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com%2Fnewspapers+ice+age&es_sm=93&biw=1280&bih=933&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1960%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1975&tbm=#q=site:google.com%2Fnewspapers+ice+storm&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:1%2F1%2F1960%2Ccd_max:12%2F31%2F1975
Jim, cut the BS. It is broken.
Remember when a google search highllighted the words used in the search in different colors???
It was so easy to scan large documents for the sections you specifically wanted. Then mysteriously and hideously, this ended abruptly with no warning. Now, one must plow through a lot of material to find the relevant data.
Google is ten times worse today than ten years ago.
There is no reason to “break” something that works…
Plenty of Reporters/Journalists/Students, etc could have used this feature… but most are too lazy especially when it comes to Climate. How about signing up for Lexus/Nexux??
The Japanese car manufacturers have invaded your thoughts.