Google Book Search Now Includes Magazines
Google announced that its Book Search engine now includes magazine archives in its results, in full-color, page-to-page, browseable format. The Googlers write:
Are you a baseball history fanatic? Try a search for [hank aaron catching babe] on Google Book Search. You’ll find a link to a 1973 Ebony article about Hank Aaron, written as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s original record for career home runs. You can read the article in full color and in its original context, just as you would in the printed magazine. Scroll back a few pages, for example, and you’ll find a two-page spread on 1973′s fall fashions. If you’d like to read further, you can click on “Browse all issues” to view issues from across the decades.
Other available titles include Popular Science, New York Magazine, and the more obscure Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Results from magazines appear alongside Book search results, and they can be difficult to ferret out—they’ve got the word “Magazine” in the result snippet. While there doesn’t appear to be a magazine-only advanced search operator you can type in yourself, from the Advanced Book Search page you can ask for results from magazines only.
I did a quick search on Des Moines, and found a copy of The National Geographic Magazine from July 1917 and I thought it was interesting what the article said about Des Moines.
Des Moines is one of the great railroad centers of the Middle West. It is the capital of the State, and it’s name signifies “Of the Monks.” Founded 71 years ago, it is now home of 100,000 progressive citizens.
I really liked the “progressive” part.
By MulderDSM
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