Live coverage: Monday's Google announcement

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We're live at TechCrunch50. Google has an announcement scheduled for 11:45 a.m. PDT. See below for the live report on the Google News Archive, which makes digital copies of old newspapers available online through partnerships with the company's publishers.

See more product launch stories from TechCrunch50 and DemoFall.

Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe.

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by andrew.mager September 8, 2008 12:29 PM PDT: I think this is awesome. Kids won't have to goto the library anymore to get information from old newspapers anymore.

It's kinda scary that Google is doing all these little things under our noses. I wonder what's next?; Like this Reply to this comment

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