Alright, that’s a British saying and if you haven’t heard it before, it goes something like this “Today’s news is tomorrow’s fish & chip paper” it’s a saying from an ear when we Brits used to get our fish & chips handed to us wrapped in newspaper, demonstrating that nobody cared what was in the newspaper the day before. Getting to the point, Google announced that it has partnered with around a hundred newspapers to make old copies available online both as scans and text. The announcement was made at the TechCrunch50 in San Francisco where Google showed examples of newspapers covering the U.S. moon landing. According to the demonstration, you’ll be able to see the paper as it was printed, with information and articles separated out for ease of reading. The initiative appears to be beneficial for all parties, with Google running its AdSense service as part of the project with profits being shared with the newspaper partners.
MyTake – it’s long been Google’s aim to make all the information ever available to everyone (or something like that) and they are getting closer and closer, first Google books and now this. Despite what is said about print, it is a barometer for the times and allows us a glimpse at what was. An idea I had when my daughter, nephew and niece were born was to buy them the newspaper from the day they were born so that they could get a feel for the world when they were born – I can’t even imagine the information that they will have available to them when they grow-up. They probably won’t look at that newspaper, but maybe we’ll have fish & chips on them.
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