• Boston Phoenix, Friday, May 20, 2011 2:30 PM

Google told newspaper publishers it would no longer be archiving their old issues, effectively ending the search giant's five-year-old News Archive Project. So far, Google has scanned 60 million pages, covering 250 years of the world's newspapers -- digital files it says it will continue to support online.

Why end the project now? "Here's two wild guesses: the process may have turned out to be harder than Google anticipated," writes Carly Carioli in the Boston Phoenix. "Or it may have turned out that the resulting pages drew far fewer eyeballs than anyone expected."

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