To many, searching for old news archive could be pain in the neck. But this should not be any more. Google has done quite a lot of work in making life easy for you through her Google News Archive (GNA). Google has tweaked with the App several times over time, but it is a little stable now.
According to Google.com, "News archive content refers to content older than 30 days. Although archive search is no longer available within Google News, you can use Google Web Search to find the content that you’re looking for."
There are 3 major ways of searching GNA:
- Go directly to Google News Advanced page. You need to wait for a little seconds before the form comes up.
- Use Google Search with this search string: [site:news.google.com/newspapers KEYWORD(S)] e.g. Search for old news Nigeria coup
- Go to Google News Archive page and put in your KEYWORD(S)
e.g. Biafra
These are some of few examples you could start with on Google News Archive:
- "Obasanjo said" biafra (7 results)
- Shagari arrest(23 results)
- Terrorism (524,000 results)
- Terrorism policy (48,200 results)
- Oil Policy Nigeria (2,290 results)
- Apartheid Nigeria (1,510 results)