Google launches News Timeline in this lab section. Google News Timeline organises your search results chronologically. This tool allows us to see news, video, magazines etc chronologically by year, month, week and day.

If you want to know what kind of books or movies are out on your birthday you just have to enter the date and Google do the rest (date in US format).

This Google tool is very fast and well presented. Google News Timeline allows the user to look for a specific category, date or topic (via keywords).

Google News Timeline

Generally this tool is great, but the further we go back in the past (e.g. :20 years), the less sources we find (mostly Wikipedia, Time magazine and some baseball news). Also, I am not sure what additional value this tool provides compared to BBC Archive or The Times Archive.

Time Archive

At the end of the day Google News Timeline uses these different sources (the Times, BBC etc…) and compiles them by date.

In conclusion, it is a good tool but not unique. I don’t see a big need for Google News Timeline.