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Google Dumps Newspaper Archive Plan

Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning and indexing microfilm and other archival material from newspapers. Instead, it was focusing its energies on "newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass, a platform that enables publishers to sell content and subscriptions directly from their own sites."

The 5-year-old News Archive project was Google's attempt to do for old newspapers what Google Books has been attempting to do for the world's libraries. Newspapers opened their morgues to Google, which promised to scan, index, and host the digital files it made from the archives. Google said it would continue to support the existing archives it has already scanned and indexed.

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