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Re: Changes to Google News Archive

NiteShadow Dec 29, 2011 9:03 PM
Posted in group: Google News

Categories: Google News Users :

Why can we apparently no longer see more than about 100 results in the archive search?  When I did a search today, it said that there were 437 results, but I was only able to see 100 of those. I first had my page default set to 50 but could only go to page 2 out of several. I then changed my default to 100 but couldn’t even get to page 2 then :(

First you stop digitizing old newspapers altogether (I understand but that's a huge loss for a lot of us), then you take away the Timeline, then remove the newspaper Archives search from the Advanced News Search options, and also make it harder to even find the archived newspapers.

Google, please, please put the Newspaper Archives search back to the way it used to be. I use the newspaper search on a regular basis for genealogy and it's allowed me to find a lot of things that I wouldn't have been able to otherwise, minus flying across the country to search in libraries where the files needed are stored (for which I thank you).  The digitized Newspaper Archives were a godsend to those like me that do genealogy, or anyone that does historical research. But now searching them has become much harder to do. The Timeline allowed us to truly narrow down the results to very specific timeframes that the 'new' Google News can't and doesn't do. And being able to access the advanced options, such as inputting a newspaper's name in the 'source' field, also worked very well to narrow down searches to specific papers. But now you can't really search through a specific newspaper any more, which makes it much harder to find the content that you're looking for.

Please listen to your users. Can't you see that we're literally begging you to make this truly usable for us once again? Thank you.