The archives of several hundred newspapers will continue to be available at news.google.com/archivesearch, but Google is "no longer accepting new microfilm or digital files for processing," a Google spokesperson confirmed in an email to Mashable.
According to the Boston Phoenix, Google emailed its contributing partners Thursday to notify them that the initiative was coming to a close so that the company could redirect resources to “newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass, a platform that enables publishers to sell content and subscriptions directly from their own sites."
Although Google will no longer process any more papers, publishers can continue to add material to their individual archives via sitemaps. They are also welcome to pursue alternative partnerships to get the content Google has scanned for them online elsewhere.
[via Search Engine Land]