Google have announced an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online.
The search behemoth are partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony.
The search engine can find articles and display them in your browser in full color and in its original context, just as you would in the printed magazine, Google said. You can also 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 could click on "Browse all issues" to view issues from across the decades.
Other publications that have been indexed by Google's Book Search include the Popular Science, New York Magazine, or the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
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.
"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," Google wrote on its official blog.
