# Why did Google News take away old newspapers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-google-news-take-away-old-newspapers/677111>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 24, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-google-news-take-away-old-newspapers/677111 "2013-12-24T23:10:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-google-news-take-away-old-newspapers/677111/1 "2013-12-24T23:10:36Z")

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When doing a search you used to be able to set date to customer range and view scans of old newspapers. Now it looks like they’ve gotten rid of it. Anyone know why? I loved it.

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**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-google-news-take-away-old-newspapers/677111/2 "2013-12-24T23:13:31Z")

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Nevermind. Found my answer:

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> a Google News employee stated in Google Product Forums that Google News is “performing a much needed facelift on our News Archive search function,” and that access to archived stories would be gone for several months while “this new system” is being built.