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This is just delicious. From the Google News site, you can now scour old archives of various newspapers, as of yesterday.

Users can also narrow their searches to specific time periods or publications of interest.

Users can search archives from Google News (news.google.com) by clicking on the ‘News Archive Search’ link. For selected queries, users of Google web search (www.google.com/) may also see links to the top three related articles from the news archives integrated at the bottom of the result page

More from Search Engine Watch:

“The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded,” said Anurag Acharya, Google distinguished engineer, who played a major role in shepherding the new product.

Google has partnered with news organizations including Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post, and aggregators including Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale and HighBeam Research, to index the full-text of content going back 200 years.

Archived news results can be found in three ways. You can search the news archives directly through a new News Archive Search page. News archive results are also returned when you search on Google News or do a general Google web search and your query has relevant historical news results.

And coverage from BusinessWeek:

Clicking on a search result will yield a summary and—here’s the part online publishers are sure to love—give users the option to buy the full article. “If I’m LexisNexis, it enables me to create an ongoing revenue stream from searches that lead to my content,” says Allen Weiner, an analyst at researcher Gartner. “I can market to those people and up-sell to them.” Contrary to the idea that Google devalues paid content, the search engine could increase the value of content and subscription services that users previously didn’t know existed.

Thiink of all the research you can do. We always knew the internet would live up to the promise of being a mega-libarary, and one could argue that it has far too many books. But this fingertip access to so many offline media giants is a step to evening out the quality…

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