18Nov/080
Google are digitizing LIFE magazine’s *entire* photo catalogue
That's 10 million images in total, most of which were never published. The first two million went online today. Like kottke says, it's a shame they're not on Flickr's Commons, but it's still a remarkable thing to do. A few sample searches.
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