More 'Quotes' from Google News

Google News had some months ago introduced a 'quote extraction' feature, using which one could access parts of the speeches or statements of important persons, compiled from various news sources. It had recently been expanded to quotes dating back to five years.

This is a good example of a news archive based tool that is not likely to lose its utility value with the passage of time. And also a good example of the kind of innovation that is possible in re-packaging and presenting news in unexpected ways that might prove interesting to users.

When this tool was launched in April it only displayed quotations extracted from the past 30 days of news. A few days ago, Google brought in a five-year index.