Google plans to enhance its Google News service with a feature designed to let users find articles with historical information on events and people.Google News Archive Search is slated to go live on Wednesday with an index of links to articles mostly from newspapers and magazines. Google built the service’s index with links already in its general Web search index, as well as with links it gained access to through arrangements with publishers and news aggregators, said Jim Gerber, Google’s content partnerships director. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe The service ranks results based on their level of relevance to the query, and preference isn’t given to links from Google partners, which include The New York Times, Factiva, Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. The service covers the history of roughly the past 200 years, and results can be grouped in various ways, including by time lines, topics and publishers.Google News Archive Search doesn’t return links to multimedia content, nor does it include links to reference material like books and encyclopedias, said Anurag Acharya, a distinguished engineer at Google. It’s not linked with Google’s Book Search service. The links lead both to free and fee-based articles. Google merely provides links and doesn’t get involved in monetary transactions between users and publishers for access to the articles. There is no integration with Google’s Checkout online payment system, he said.The new service has no monetization model, and there is no financial arrangement between Google and the publishers it is partnering with, Acharya said.Google News Archive Search is launching with a U.S. English-language interface, although it contains content in other languages. The plan is to make it more global through collaboration with international partners and to launch it for other countries.To access the service, users can go here or via a link from Google News. Google News Archive Search links will also surface sometimes on Google.com results.-Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)Related Link: Google to Offer Book DownloadsCheck out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content news Oracle bolsters distributed cloud, AI strategy with new Mexico cloud region The second cloud region in Monterrey, providing over 100 OCI services, is part of Oracle's plan to compete with AWS, Google and Microsoft, and cash in on enterprise interest in generative AI. By Anirban Ghoshal Sep 26, 2023 3 mins Generative AI Generative AI Generative AI brandpost Zero Trust: Understanding the US government’s requirements for enhanced cybersecurity By Jaye Tillson, Field CTO at HPE Aruba Networking Sep 26, 2023 4 mins Zero Trust feature SAP prepares to add Joule generative AI copilot across its apps Like Salesforce and ServiceNow, SAP is promising to embed an AI copilot throughout its applications, but planning a more gradual roll-out than some competitors. By Peter Sayer Sep 26, 2023 5 mins CIO SAP Generative AI brandpost Mitigating mayhem in a complex hybrid IT world How to build a resilient enterprise in the face of unexpected (and expected) IT mayhem moments. By Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mainframe Software Division Sep 26, 2023 7 mins Hybrid Cloud Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe