Google announced on Tuesday that they have a partnership with several publishers to include a collection of over 1 million articles that appeared years ago. The magazine search function is available via Google’s Book Search in the Advanced Preferences tab. Yet, the web search company plans to include magazine articles in general search results in the near future.

The dozens of articles were digitally scanned in a similar manner used when Google launched Book Search. Images of the articles were taken and the text contained in them was converted into digital characters through a text recognition software. Searching through the magazines reveals old articles from the New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science and Men’s Health. All the places that are named in an article are highlighted and clicking them brings Google Maps alongside of the page, showing the exact location of the event.

Google’s decision to index content from magazines was immediately given a positive response from several publishers as they are going to receive an amount of Google’s income from advertisements. The ads are placed at the side of the articles, along with links directing to the publishers’ web site.

The inclusion of paper magazines in Google’s web searches is only one of the steps the company in Mountain View did to bring non-internet sources on the web in the last few years. As an example, along with book and magazine searches, Google has indexed an entire archive of photos from Life magazine and thousands of issues of a number of newspapers.