Google Abandons Plan To Archive World's Newspapers 60
An anonymous reader writes "Throughout the past few years, Google's newspaper-scanning project has digitized more than 60 million pages from newspapers spanning 250 years, including such gems as the moon landing. But according to the Boston Phoenix, this ambitious effort is slated to soon be axed in favor of Google One Pass, a platform for publishers to monetize content from their own sites."
It won't exist in perpetuity at Google either (Score:4, Insightful)
Google won't exist forever, what happens to the data then?
They should be taking lessons from the Stanford LOCKSS project.