# Google apparently pulls the plug on Google News Archives **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 7, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782 "2013-12-07T23:53:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/1 "2013-12-07T23:53:11Z")
Several years ago, Google said that they would no longer be adding new content to the archives. They also took down the Google News Archives site, but the content was still accessible from the Google News search as a separate selection in the drop down. And now that’s gone. It does have the drop down of ‘specific dates,’ but those are only for recent dates. Apparently it’s just gone now. Maybe I was the only person using it, not that I need to use newspaper archives in general very often, but they had a pretty decent selection of local newspapers. No likee! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/2 "2013-12-08T00:05:32Z")
Boo indeed. It really seems like Google, having taken over the material, could have kept it in some tiny pocket of their vast industrial server farms. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/3 "2013-12-08T00:24:11Z")
Do you mean the Usenet archives (formally Dejanews)? ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/4 "2013-12-08T02:09:20Z")
Yeah the actual newspaper archives seem to be working perfectly fine. [Here’s a page I accessed right now.](http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2mus-XyGPC0C&dat=19790504&printsec=frontpage&hl=en) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/5 "2013-12-08T02:25:08Z")
Looks like the archives are still intact, but the search option has been disabled. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/6 "2013-12-08T09:35:12Z")
And nothing of value was lost. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/7 "2013-12-15T18:42:02Z")
Well it looks like the search junction is back to working again. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/8 "2013-12-17T06:27:54Z")
A good bit of what I know about my family history comes from articles found via Google News archives. Thanks for the reminder that I need to download the content very soon. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-google-news-archives/675782/9 "2013-12-17T13:12:19Z")
> [@lel](#): > > A good bit of what I know about my family history comes from articles found via Google News archives. Thanks for the reminder that I need to download the content very soon. I don’t know about a good bit, but I did use it from time to time. I’ve never understood why companies pull the plug on such things. I do know it costs something to keep the info, but they already have it!