The search giant says it already does this for books and maps. “Now we’re going to do this with newspapers,” said Marissa Mayer (pictured), vice president of search products and user experience. “I think this is really good for newspapers.”

Mayer made the announcement on the first day of the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. She said the service includes millions of articles from the newspapers The St. Petersburg Times and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

It will allow people to search for articles from archives and bring new users to the papers, she said. Google will share ad revenue with newspaper companies.

By Mark Boslet, Editor at Large.