Google News has announced the shutdown of Newspaper Archiving Project. The project has a lot to do with Google past and its future. The company has also announced that it will no longer be updating the features and functionality of the project.
The main reason which lead to Closing down of this project is that Google now looking forward to Publisher subscription service instead of Newspaper Archiving Project. The project is quite similar to Newspaper Archiving Project, but Google says that it might not fit for their future needs which asks for Chromebooks and Androids Apps.
Carioli said that the newspaper archives was more problematic and cumbersome and it only generated few page view than expected.
The main reason which lead to Closing down of this project is that Google now looking forward to Publisher subscription service instead of Newspaper Archiving Project. The project is quite similar to Newspaper Archiving Project, but Google says that it might not fit for their future needs which asks for Chromebooks and Androids Apps.
News Archive was generally a good deal for newspapers — especially smaller ones like ours, who couldn’t afford the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars it would have cost to digitally scan and index our archives — and a decent bet for Googlewrote Carly Carioli of the Boston Phoenix.
Carioli said that the newspaper archives was more problematic and cumbersome and it only generated few page view than expected.
Carioli’s Saying
Are we mad at that? Ehhh, not really. The deal Google struck with partner newspapers stipulated that, somewhere down the line, a paper could purchase Google’s digital scans of its content for a fee. That fee is now being waived, and Google is not only giving publishers free access to the scanned files, but also the rights to publish them with other partners. In essence, Google just scanned a huge chunk of the newspaper industry’s valuable long-tail content, and then handed it to the publishers.