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9 dicembre 2008
The word "magazine" is derived from the Arabic word "makhazin," meaning storehouse. Since Daniel Defoe published the world's first English magazine back in 1704, millions of magazines catering to nearly every imaginable taste have been created and consumed, passed from person to person in cafes, barber shops, libraries, and homes around the world. If you're wondering what cars people drove in the eighties or what was in fashion thirty years ago, there's a good chance that you'll find that answer in a magazine. Yet few magazine archives are currently available online.
Today, we're announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as
New York Magazine
,
Popular Mechanics
, and
Ebony
. Are you a baseball history fanatic? Try a search for [
hank aaron pursuing babe ruth's record
] 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.
Explore other publications, like
Popular Science
,
New York Magazine
, or (for you physics enthusiasts) the
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
, to rediscover
historical interviews
,
do-it-yourself articles
, and even a piece on
canine eyewear
. In many cases, these magazines aren't just history as history, but history as perspective — a way of understanding today.
You can search for magazines through Google Book Search. Try queries like [
obama keynote convention
], [
hollywood brat pack
] or [
world's most challenging crossword
] and you'll find magazine articles alongside books results. Magazine articles are tagged with the keyword "Magazine" on the search snippet.
Over time, as we scan more articles, you'll see more and more magazines appear in Google Book Search results. Eventually, we'll also begin blending magazine results into our main Google.com search results, so you may begin finding magazines you didn't even know you were looking for. For now you can restrict your search to magazines we've scanned by trying an advanced search.
For years, we've worked to make as much information as possible accessible online, whether that information comes from
books
,
newspapers
, or
images
. We think that bringing more magazines online is one more important step toward our long-standing goal of providing access to all the world's information.
Posted by Dave Foulser, Software Engineer
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