News archive searching in Google

Google now has the ability to allow you to search news archives. It goes back to the Eighteenth Century and you can do a date limited search. Some of the results do lead to fee based publications, while others are free. The service is a bit limited now, but Google intends to broaden the depth of its coverage as well as its scope to include international and foreign sources. This is an excellent way to search multiple databases, such as NY Times archives, Washington Post and Time magazine, along with smaller newspapers. The archives also can go back further than what is available on Westlaw or Lexis.