Google News Timeline is the next planet we are exploring in our boomer space adventure. As stated by Google,”it is :

A web application that organizes information chronologically. Google News Timeline allows users to view news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and more on a zoomable, graphical timeline.

You can key in a term and search under a drop down of several catergories which include:

News

News quotes

News videos

News photos

Magazines

Blogs

Sport scores

Wikipedia

Music

Movies

Books

Tv Shows

Video games

Artworks

Buildings

Prizes

So, I keyed in baby boomers and tried a couple of the categories. In the category, News I found an article for April 20, 2009 about how great we baby boomers are looking.

But many of the catergories are not showing results yet. However, test other topics. I keyed in the artist Degas, and searched under Artworks and oh my goodness it went back to 1800’s.

You can also specify your searchs  by day, year, month, or decade.

Google labs has provided a good page of navigation and instructions for using Google News Timeline that is a must read!

So, put on your hiking boots and space gear and boldly explore this planet with us. Let us know what you find.