PaperOfRecord.com, which was just acquired by Google. As part of its initiative to digitize newspaper archives, Google completed a two-year sales process for an undisclosed sum. The Canadian site got its start by digitizing the entire history of the 15 countries online. The aforementioned Halifax Gazette appears to be the earliest record at present, but the goal is to archive papers all the way back to the 16th Century. (The printing press was invented in 1439.) The problem with completing this task, naturally, was lack of resources.
Punit Soni, product manager of Google News Archive, said something appropriately corporate and distantly passionless involving a “robust set of Canadian newspaper content” and “a number of interesting US newspapers.” What else is there to say? Likely there were spreadsheets and presentations to revise, and perhaps some dry toast waiting.
Meanwhile, back in Total Coolnessville, the Halifax Gazette submits this mysterious entry for your perusal (edited for funny-looking esses that look like effs):
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