[PRCo] Re: Google Newspaper Search

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 22:52:43 EST 2009


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Paul Steven <wiki at scillystuff.co.uk> wrote:
> I think they still have some way to go to make this as easy to use as Google
> maps :)
> There is an up/down arrow icon to the right of the "zoom in" magnifying
> glass icon which will give you the full page with the article.
>
> Clicking on the newspaper name and date link (in the same light blue bar,
> but on the left) will take you back to the front page.
>
> I am still finding my way around the Google news archive. When the OCR is
> good enough to be searchable, it is excellent, but some way of quickly
> browsing sequential issues when looking for a story which the search doesn't
> find would be nice.

Your Google News fu is better than mine, got anything for the August
1, 1959 cessation of service of the Allegheny and South Side Railway?

(I have the Sun-Tele's article, but it didn't come from Google. I
scanned a literal clipping)

Derrick



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