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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/bustech/story.html?id=e1a69f5b-3452-41dd-89a3-beea1d8a8ccdGoogle expected to take over Ottawa data firmBert Hill, The Ottawa CitizenPublished: Friday, November 14, 2008Google, the Internet search giant, is expected to announce today thatit has bought a vast Canadian digital database of newspaper microfilmsand other historical records from an Ottawa company.Bob Huggins, chief executive officer of PaperOfRecord.com (POR), saidyesterday that the deal means that thousands of genealogists,researchers and history buffs can now access information previouslylocked in the dusty microfilm records of newspapers and libraries."We have build a vast compendium of 20 million images of newspaperpages recording everyday life over 500 years. Much of this informationpreviously was not available to ordinary people." [...]