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Over two years ago, Google made a deal with LIFE to provide a Google powered image search for the LIFE Photo Archive. You can still access it today at images.google.com/hosted/life.
The issue is, when you click on any of those links or try a search query, you won't get results.
For example a search on either [1860s US Civil War source:life] or [Franklin D. Roosevelt source:life], which are featured sample searches, return nothing. Instead it reads, "Your search - Franklin D. Roosevelt source:life - did not match any documents." Here is a picture:
Google has literally taken the life out of the LIFE image search feature.
The thing is, a site command, as opposed to a source command works. Try [Franklin D. Roosevelt site:life.com].
Jeff from Google confirmed the bug in a Google Web Search Help thread. Jeff said:
I appreciate you taking the time to post this issue. I've brought it up with the team and we are investigating.
There is no ETA for a fix but it still does not work for me. Hat tip to Gary Price for pointing this out to me.
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.
Comments:
AllTimeBD.com
12/16/2010 06:02 pm
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PK
12/19/2010 04:32 pm
If google and life closed this : a sad day in my life.
The Sanity Inspector
12/21/2010 08:27 pm
Still non-functional as of 12/21/10. It's too bad. I have found several people misidentified in the archive also, but with no feedback mechanism there's not much to do about it.
144Cent
12/26/2010 09:32 pm
GOLDEN RULE: If it seems too good to be true, grab all you can, because it will be gone as soon as somebody figures out they can make a buck from it.