- Midwest Factory Activity Rose in October: Chicago Fed
- US to Push Mortgage Lenders to Modify More Loans
- Cyber Monday: The Last Vestige of Dotcom Hype
- Governments Must Act to Avoid More Dubais: El-Erian
- Regulators Compile Global List of 'Systemic Risk' Banks
- Dubai Stocks Shed 7%, Abu Dhabi Tumbles 8%
- The World's Biggest Debtor Nations
- Scientists Gone Wild: Climate Debate Turns Nasty
- BofA Aims to Clearly Spell Out Credit Card Terms
- Dubai Fear is 'Noise'—Stay Fully Invested: Strategist
- Tech Comes to Holiday Shopping's Rescue?
- Timeless and Time-Tested Warren Buffett Watch Predictions
- Roginsky: The Botax Whose Time Has Come
- Buy or Hold: Analyst Rates 10 Retail Stocks
- Execs: Tis The Season To Take Control
- November Winners & Losers
- Farrell: Testing Those International Waters Again
- Bob Doll: “We Continue to See Gains”
- Citi names Willem Buiter its new top economist
- CDC Software to buy gomembers, terms not disclosed
- KAR Auction Services sets terms of public offering
- Analyst cuts Supervalu to 'Underweight'
- Coal protesters tie selves to NC generator in SC
- Ariz. sports authority cuts back on obligations
- Air Products and Chemicals in Shell hydrogen deal
- DOE hosts public meeting on Miss. new gas plant
- Covidien sells oxygen therapy unit to Chart
Text Size 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
The new service, available at http://images.google.com/hosted/life, debuted Tuesday with about 2 million photos. Eventually, Google plans to scan all 10 million photos from Life's library so they can be viewed on any computer with an Internet connection.
About 97 percent of Life's archives have not been publicly seen, according to Life.
The photos can be printed out for free as long as they aren't being used as part of an attempt to make money. Time Warner Inc., Life's parent company, hopes to make money by selling high-resolution, framed prints. The orders will be processed through Qoop.com.
Life's archives include photos from the Civil War as well as some of the most memorable moments from the 20th century, including the Zapruder film capturing John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Google has been indexing a wide variety of information that previously wasn't available online as part of its efforts to lure even more traffic to its popular search engine. For the past four years, Google has been scanning millions of books stored in dozens of libraries around the world.
The Life partnership represents Google's biggest undertaking in professional photography. Google hopes to work out similar arrangements with the owners of other large photo archives, said R.J. Pittman, a director of product management.
Print
Email
- Ever wished your cab driver would stop chatting and just get to where you're going? Well, that moment is closer than ever.
- With Americans cutting back on spending, holiday tipping will take another hit this year.
- Raising alligators is hard work, and the fickle taste of rich consumers has just made it much harder, says the NY Times.
- From the why-didn’t-I-think-of-that file, we present Jason Sadler, a man whose job is wearing T-shirts.
- Shopping for a gadget hound? The choices can be baffling. Here are a few that should be a hit.
- "The Who" will be the halftime act for Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 in Miami. Is the NFL behind the times?
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes