Google News Archive homepage removed

CTL-E-0845 · Event · other · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

(2011-08) Google's August 2011 removal of its News Archive homepage - the first major platform-level disappearance of newspaper-digitization access.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-104; source research type(s): event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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Record CTL-E-0845 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: PRESERVE-001.
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Cite as: CultureTechLens, “Google News Archive homepage removed (CTL-E-0845),” October 4, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0845/

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