On Tuesday at midnight this week the New York Times released its archives since 1987 from behind the previous for-pay wall that kept those archives from being searched. Already, it is possible to find articles in those archives through Google and other search engines. As an exercise in how search engines in the open Internet cut through the chaos of billions of Web pages to find what you ask them for, pick a topic that interest you, say brain science and search for it on Google with phrase like this: New York Times brain science. Articles from past months and years will now be returned for you. These will be articles that could not be found that way until now. They are a fabulous new global resource for open study and discourse.
On Tuesday at midnight this week the New York Times released its archives since 1987 from behind the previous for-pay wall that kept those archives from being searched. Already, it is possible to find articles in those archives through Google and other search engines. As an exercise in how search engines in the open Internet [...]
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@ 15:56
Just a simple advice on how to properly use google for the purpose you mention on your post. Use the following query:
site:nytimes.com brain science
That truly returns articles from nytimes.com that somehow relate to brain science. Otherwise is whatever article on the internet with the words New York Times brain science in any order.
@ 13:13
I agree completely. It’s good you pointed it, because, as you know, this is a syntax search technique most people don’t know about. It requires a bit of SEO knowledge.
@ 14:00
Thanks to you both! I did not know how to do this search. Wisdom from the crowds!