Google digitises printing media. In addition to books and newspapers, Google Book Search now archives millions of pages of magazines from New York Magazineand Ebony to Popular Mechanics.

The magazines have been given a look of archived newspaper. You can browse different covers of a magazine or dive into a specific issue and turn the scanned pages, which come complete with all of the old advertisements. You can search within an issue. Not only that, you have facilities to zoom in and zoom out and also, the feature to integrate Google Maps with the mentioned places inside the articles is also there.

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