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Google Demos Online Newspaper Archive at TechCrunch50
The service is built on the technology used in Google Books, and can distinguish headlines from article text. If you've ever used a microfiche, the experience is remarkably similar. A tumbnailed view is presented at the right of the screen and contains a draggable selection box that allows you to "flip" through the paper. Pages can also be navigated Acrobat-style by entering a page number or clicking forward/back buttons.
It's a promising development, and should prove to be a powerful research tool.
A side panel will display relveant articles as well as contextual AdSense ads, with Google and the publishers splitting revenue. They've also promised to drive new newspaper subscriptions by adding a "get this paper" link.
Take the new service for a test drive, and let us know what you think!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Ddaur said 9:27PM on 9-08-2008
well, another step for Google...
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ZeroCoolFool said 3:01PM on 9-09-2008
So now when I am doing my reseach on the relationship of manitees and the florida ecosytem I can view ads for Manitees pron. Yeah Google!
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