"PDFs of back issues, outtakes, and photo challenge selections."

must see technology... makes tv and video archives a strong competitor of print archives. searchable text isn't a print exclusive anymore.

..smart move.. publishers will quit their whining as soon as they realize that google will make more money for them out of their content as they could do it alone.. it's already happening with copyright protected videos being published on youtube.. "piracy" sounds rather ridicolous from this perspective: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_pirate_business.php

"Shares of UAL briefly plummeted as low as $3 early in the day -- from $12.30 on Friday -- after a 6-year-old story on the company's 2002 bankruptcy filing resurfaced on the Web and was reported as news by an investment letter."

"Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. (...) Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you'll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed -- photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all."

"(It’s) a quick way to catch up on how a story has developed over time," explains CNN.com senior producer Rachel Clarke. "Now, when we want to give history, context and background to a developing story, we go back through our archives to find ‘milestone’ events and then link those together in an interactive window."

"...old media is slowly figuring out that more content equals more traffic, sometimes much more traffic."

...quite interesting - the Google News timeline sorts archived news due to dates mentioned in the articles, not due to publication date.

"...provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods."

"For magazines and newspapers with long histories, especially, old material can be reborn on the Web as an inexpensive way to attract readers, advertisers and money."

"TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages..."

"Some 13,000 clips Reuters-produced videos, with 125 new clips added daily, will be available to Web publishers who license the videos for 30-day use. The videos will be both edited pieces and unedited, natural sound segments."

"Das Online-Archiv umfasst die Texte aller Ausgaben des FOCUS Magazin seit dem ersten Erscheinen im Jahr 1993 – mit Ausnahme der jüngsten Ausgaben."