This Google guys are very inventive. They come out with pretty decent services and this time, its a news archive system that lets users scour newspaper and magazine articles from The Guardian, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Factiva and Lexis Nexis. Who knows, it might be pretty useful for Family Tree researching as it covers the 1800s too.

What else does it cover ? According to bloggingstocks :

Google's apparently goal here is to allow customers to view history as it unfolded using Google News as the ultimate almanac and newspaper source in one centralized location. In what looks like a result of the "20% personal project" time that all Google employees receive to follow personal passions and project dreams, Anurag Acharya, who developed the Google Scholar service, said this: "Users can see how viewpoints changed over time for events, for ideas and for people". That's quite a mission statement for just a sliver of the overall Google universe. The news archive can be found live right now now at Google News already.